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Revision of a hoard of Roman coins from Kruševo near Obrovac
Tomislav Šeparović
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Kruševo is a settlement situated in the area of north-western Bukovica, about 5 km to the southwest of Obrovac. In the area of the settlement there is a hill called Cvijina Gradina (Gradina: Hill settlement) interesting since the 19th century as a place with numerous archaeological remains. It is a typical early- Iron-Age Liburnian settlement that continued to exist after the Romans had definitely established their rule in the area. It is here that early professional literature places Clambetae, mentioned in Tabula Peutingeriana. However, Roman Ansium was more likely situated here, which could be concluded according to the boundary stone excavated at Ivanova Glavica to the south of Kruševo, bearing the inscription, which can be reconstructed as inter An[sienses et Co]riniens (es).
The hoard of silver objects excavated in December 1897 can certainly be connected with the settlement at Cvijina Gradina. The find was discovered unintentionally by the villagers near Gradina, the hill settlement. It contained round 150 samples of Roman Republican and Imperial coins, and a number of various jewellery pieces. Ninety-eight (98) coins were then placed in the then Museum of St Donat in Zadar, some ended up in private hands, and thirty-four (34) were bought by Friar Lujo Marun for the First Museum of Croatian Monuments, now the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments. The coins from Zadar were taken to Italy in 1943 together with many numismatic pieces, and the ones bought by Marun were destroyed in world wars. We tried to reconstruct the find according to the data already published, and those from the archives of the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments. Republican coins prevail among the finds, a total of eighty-two (82) pieces. Sixteen (16) samples of coins were forged under the control of Augustus when he became the absolute ruler of the Roman state. The most recent coin among them represented by terminus post quem for dating of finds was forged in the mint of the city of Lugdunum between the years 2 BC and probably AD 4. According to this the Kruševo find can be compared with the hoard from Lički Ribnik near Gospić and connected to the tumultuous times of the war known as Bellum Batonianum. The aim of the war was to suppress the big Illyrian rebellion between AD 6 and 9, which largely threatened Rome. Doing the revision and reconstruction of the hoard we intended to contribute to better understanding of Roman history in this part of Dalmatia.
Ključne riječi
Kruševo; Cvijina gradina; Ansium; hoard; coins; numizmatics
Hrčak ID:
2515
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Datum izdavanja:
1.12.2005.
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