Original scientific paper
Numismatic finds from the Roman site of Soline on Sv. Klement island in the Pakleni Archipelago near Hvar
Marina Ugarković
; Institut za arheologiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Eduard Visković
; Kantharos d.o.o., Hvar, Hrvatska
Abstract
The article analyzes the coins found during archaeological excavations at a Roman villa in Soline Cove on the island of Sv. Klement in the Pakleni Archipelago off the Central Dalmatian island of Hvar. The earliest among the 32 coins found there are the coins of Illyrian King Ballaios and Roman Republican coins. Then follow Roman Imperial coins (with the ones from Late Antiquity being the most numerous) and a coin struck in the Venetian Republic. The typological, cultural-historical, statistical and contextual analyses of these finds can help us better understand the chronology of human activities in the natural and cultural landscape of the island of Sv. Klement and improve our knowledge of the circulation of the earliest coins and economic and political situation in Central Dalmatia of the day.
Keywords
Central Dalmatia; Sv. Klement (Pakleni Archipelago, Hvar); numismatic material; Roman villa; coinage circulation; Illyrian coins; Roman Republican and Imperial coins; Venetian coin
Hrčak ID:
217418
URI
Publication date:
15.2.2019.
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