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Bartczak, Andrzej: Islamic dirhams from the Góra Strękowa hoard
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nity. The hunters informed the District Museum in Białystok of the dis-
coyery.1
Until recendy, 29 dirhams from this hoard were on deposit. in the State
Archeological Museum of Warsaw; at present, they are being kept in the
Łomża Regional Museum. The State Archeological Museum has come into
the possession, however, of four additional dirhams that are doubdess a part
of this find.-' According to some accounts, the hoard contained yet other
dirhams, which are said to have been on exhibit at the Białystok Regional
Museum;3 however, according to information obtained from the latter, the
Museum presendy does not possess any coins from this hoard.4
The dirhams from the hoard in ąuestion were transferred, not long
after their discovery, to the Department of Oriental Sources and Numis-
matics of the Jagiellonian University's Institute of Oriental Philology in
Cracow, where they were preliminarily identified, after which they were
put on display at an exhibition organized in Italy.
The catalogue portion of the present study is based on the coin de-
scription system used by the present author in the previous issue of Notae
Numismaticae — Zapiski Numizmatyczne.0
1 This information was obtained from Ms. Sylwia Małachowska of the State Archeological
Museum (PMA), who conducted interviews regarding the circumstances under which the
hoard was discovered. Some details associated with this were found in the article recently
published by this author on the silver ornaments from Góra Strękowa; see S. Małachowska,
„Srebrne ozdoby z loczesnośredniowiecznego skarbu z Góry Strękowej, gm. Zawady, woj. łomżyńskie (Situer
Ornaments from theEarly Medieual Hoard in Góra Strękowa, Zawady Commune, Łomża Voiv.)", Wiado-
mości Archeologiczne Vol. HI, Part 1 (Warsaw 1993-1994), pp. 35-45.
2 These coins were acquired by Dr. Borys Paszkiewicz from a private owner. At this point
I would like to express my considerable gratitude to three employees of the State Archeolo-
gical Museum: Mrs Kunka Szubert for making the coins available for study; Mr. Andrzej
Ring for making the photographs; and Ms. Sylwia Małachowska for providing detailed
information on the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the hoard.
3 Verbal information received from Prof. Stanisław Suchodolski of the Institute of Ar-
cheology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and from Dr. Jerzy Piniński of
the Łódź Museum of Archeology and Ethnology. One may thus yenture the statement that
the hoard certainly included more coins than those described in the present article.
4 Letter of November 9, 1993, from the Białystok Regional Museum. There are grounds
to suppose that this may involve dirhams that were deposited at this museum for the dura-
tion of the exhibition. According to Dr. Paszkiewicz, these would be the specimens later
purchased by the State Archeological Museum.
5 A. Bartczak, "Dirhams in the Collection of the Auxiliary Science and Archive Department,
Institute of History, Jagiellonian Unwersity", Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne 2
(Cracow 1997), pp. 166 and 168.
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coyery.1
Until recendy, 29 dirhams from this hoard were on deposit. in the State
Archeological Museum of Warsaw; at present, they are being kept in the
Łomża Regional Museum. The State Archeological Museum has come into
the possession, however, of four additional dirhams that are doubdess a part
of this find.-' According to some accounts, the hoard contained yet other
dirhams, which are said to have been on exhibit at the Białystok Regional
Museum;3 however, according to information obtained from the latter, the
Museum presendy does not possess any coins from this hoard.4
The dirhams from the hoard in ąuestion were transferred, not long
after their discovery, to the Department of Oriental Sources and Numis-
matics of the Jagiellonian University's Institute of Oriental Philology in
Cracow, where they were preliminarily identified, after which they were
put on display at an exhibition organized in Italy.
The catalogue portion of the present study is based on the coin de-
scription system used by the present author in the previous issue of Notae
Numismaticae — Zapiski Numizmatyczne.0
1 This information was obtained from Ms. Sylwia Małachowska of the State Archeological
Museum (PMA), who conducted interviews regarding the circumstances under which the
hoard was discovered. Some details associated with this were found in the article recently
published by this author on the silver ornaments from Góra Strękowa; see S. Małachowska,
„Srebrne ozdoby z loczesnośredniowiecznego skarbu z Góry Strękowej, gm. Zawady, woj. łomżyńskie (Situer
Ornaments from theEarly Medieual Hoard in Góra Strękowa, Zawady Commune, Łomża Voiv.)", Wiado-
mości Archeologiczne Vol. HI, Part 1 (Warsaw 1993-1994), pp. 35-45.
2 These coins were acquired by Dr. Borys Paszkiewicz from a private owner. At this point
I would like to express my considerable gratitude to three employees of the State Archeolo-
gical Museum: Mrs Kunka Szubert for making the coins available for study; Mr. Andrzej
Ring for making the photographs; and Ms. Sylwia Małachowska for providing detailed
information on the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the hoard.
3 Verbal information received from Prof. Stanisław Suchodolski of the Institute of Ar-
cheology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and from Dr. Jerzy Piniński of
the Łódź Museum of Archeology and Ethnology. One may thus yenture the statement that
the hoard certainly included more coins than those described in the present article.
4 Letter of November 9, 1993, from the Białystok Regional Museum. There are grounds
to suppose that this may involve dirhams that were deposited at this museum for the dura-
tion of the exhibition. According to Dr. Paszkiewicz, these would be the specimens later
purchased by the State Archeological Museum.
5 A. Bartczak, "Dirhams in the Collection of the Auxiliary Science and Archive Department,
Institute of History, Jagiellonian Unwersity", Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne 2
(Cracow 1997), pp. 166 and 168.
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