DOI Artikel:
Petac, Emanuel: About the Sarmizegetusa hoard from 1998 and the possible chronology of Burebista's campaign to the Black Sea border
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.49247#0017
Tom XIII
Kraków 2018
NOTAE NUMISMAT1CAE
ZAPISKI NUMIZMATYCZNE
EMANUEL PETAC
Senior Researcher
Library of the Romanian Academy, Numismatic Department
About the Sarmizegetusa Hoard from 1998 and
the Possible Chronology of Burebista’s Campaign
to the Black Sea Border
ABSTRACT: In August of 1998, a huge hoard was taken from the Ora§tie
Mountains, close to the Dacian stronghold in Sarmizegetusa Regia, in a place called
the “Plain of the Goat - near the path” (hole C). This hoard contained about 3,600 West 1.3
Pontic Lysimachus-type staters as well as a few staters of Phamaces II of Pontus and
a few of Asander of Pontus as archon. Unfortunately, the hoard has since been dispersed
across Western Europe and the U.S. The strange presence of a hoard of this kind, one
that consisted of coins that were specific to the Western Black Sea area - but which
were found more than 600 km west of the Black Sea - offers a perfect opportunity
to discuss again the chronology of the campaign of the Dacian king Burebista from
Olbia to Apollonia, as well as the chronology of Asander’s time as archon and king.
Burebista’s campaign offers the only possible historical explanation for the hoard’s
presence in the Oraętie Mountains, where several lots of Istros bronze coins have
also been found, at the Dacian citadels in Costeęti and Piatra Ro§ie or in a tumular
tomb in Coste§ti. This essay argues in favor of the traditional chronology of Asander
as archon (47M3 BC), suggesting that Burebista’s Pontic campaign probably took
place in 46 BC.
KEY WORDS: Sarmizegetusa Regia, Asander, Tomis, Istros, Byzantium
ABSTRAKT: O skarbie zSarmizegetusyz 1998 roku i przypuszczalnej chronologii
kampanii Burebisty ku wybrzeżom Morza Czarnego
W sierpniu 1998 roku w górach Orästie, w pobliżu twierdzy Daków zwanej Sarmi-
zegctusa Rcgia, w miejscu zwanym „Równiną Kozy - w pobliżu ścieżki” (wykop C),
Kraków 2018
NOTAE NUMISMAT1CAE
ZAPISKI NUMIZMATYCZNE
EMANUEL PETAC
Senior Researcher
Library of the Romanian Academy, Numismatic Department
About the Sarmizegetusa Hoard from 1998 and
the Possible Chronology of Burebista’s Campaign
to the Black Sea Border
ABSTRACT: In August of 1998, a huge hoard was taken from the Ora§tie
Mountains, close to the Dacian stronghold in Sarmizegetusa Regia, in a place called
the “Plain of the Goat - near the path” (hole C). This hoard contained about 3,600 West 1.3
Pontic Lysimachus-type staters as well as a few staters of Phamaces II of Pontus and
a few of Asander of Pontus as archon. Unfortunately, the hoard has since been dispersed
across Western Europe and the U.S. The strange presence of a hoard of this kind, one
that consisted of coins that were specific to the Western Black Sea area - but which
were found more than 600 km west of the Black Sea - offers a perfect opportunity
to discuss again the chronology of the campaign of the Dacian king Burebista from
Olbia to Apollonia, as well as the chronology of Asander’s time as archon and king.
Burebista’s campaign offers the only possible historical explanation for the hoard’s
presence in the Oraętie Mountains, where several lots of Istros bronze coins have
also been found, at the Dacian citadels in Costeęti and Piatra Ro§ie or in a tumular
tomb in Coste§ti. This essay argues in favor of the traditional chronology of Asander
as archon (47M3 BC), suggesting that Burebista’s Pontic campaign probably took
place in 46 BC.
KEY WORDS: Sarmizegetusa Regia, Asander, Tomis, Istros, Byzantium
ABSTRAKT: O skarbie zSarmizegetusyz 1998 roku i przypuszczalnej chronologii
kampanii Burebisty ku wybrzeżom Morza Czarnego
W sierpniu 1998 roku w górach Orästie, w pobliżu twierdzy Daków zwanej Sarmi-
zegctusa Rcgia, w miejscu zwanym „Równiną Kozy - w pobliżu ścieżki” (wykop C),