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Deposit of earlyhungarian coinage from Tompojevci near Vukovar
Hermine Göricke-Lukić
; Muzej Slavonije Osijek, Osijek, Hrvatska
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The paper deals with the deposit of early Hungarian
coinage excavated by the villagers of Tompojevci near Vukovar
in 1965. According to scarce data that we currently
have at our disposal, it is a container with a large number of
early Hungarian silver coinage. The deposit has dispersed
and only a smaller part reached the Numismatic collection
of the Museum of Slavonia by chance-i.e. it was donated.
In the same year the local teacher donated six samples to
the curator Emil Spajić, prof. during his short visit to Tompojevci.
The village of Tompojevci is situated approximately
20 km southeast of Vukovar (halfway between Vukovar
and Tovarnik) in the background of the Danube limes, in
the area that like hardly any other in the northeast Croatia
has been continuously inhabited. The mediaeval so called
Solni put (Salt road) leading from Sotin towards the Sava
river, passing along Tompojevci and following probably
the Roman one speaks for the significance of this area .
However, numismatic topography of Tompojevci and
its surrounding area observed in the context of scarce archaeological
sources is incomplete, which is the result of
insufficient research of the area.
The deposit comprises denari of the duke Geza I
(1064-1074) (3) and Ladislaus I (1077-1095) (3) with a
cross on obverse and reverse as a basic motif feature. Since
the deposit is without an archaeological context and therefore
it is impossible to determine the earliest date when it
could have been buried, it is impossible to consider its historical
context – threatening riots, war danger or other possible
reasons for burial.
Hypothetically, if the deposit had been filled with
emission of Ladislaus I and then buried afterwards, it would
have been the time of undisturbed traffic and economic
connections between the parent Hungarian area and eastern
area between the two rivers. It would have been the time of
favourable chances that made both the population growth
and new settlements emergence, such as the settlements at
Meraja in Vinkovci, and the awakening was experienced by
the former Pannonian capital – Syrmia (Sirmium). The time
in which eastern area between the two rivers was firmly
integrated in Hungarian ruling and administrative system.
The time when during the First Crusade War crusaders
passed through this area in summer of 1096. Their movement
was described by chronicler Albert from Aachen, having
noted that Zemun was the final southeastern border post
of the Hungarian Kingdom.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
95594
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Datum izdavanja:
20.5.2010.
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