ROME 2001 - ESQUILINO, VIA TURATI

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Location

City

Roma

Address

Via Filippo Turati 171

County

Roma

Region

Lazio

Country

Italy

Ancient place

Roma

Lat/Long/Alt

41.896663 / 12.505671 / 52.6 view

Location details

Centred on field

Information

15031

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Hoard name

ROME 2001 - ESQUILINO, VIA TURATI

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

2001

Total number of coins

Summary

6 antoniniani (radiates): Gordian III 1, Philip I 4, Valerian I 1 (AD 258-259). Found with jewelry.

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Credit

Discovery method

Controlled archaeological investigation
Land Use

Built over
Disposition

Museo Nazionale Romano, Medagliere, Rome (inv.nos. 516410-516415 coins; 517911-517915)
Comment

The rescue archaeological excavations connected to the redevelopment project of the Esquilino quarter, in particular the area located between Via Turati and Via Giolitti (formerly Centrale del Latte, former Military Warehouses).
Closing reign (earliest)

Valerian I and Gallienus
Terminal year (earliest)

258
Closing reign (latest)

Valerian I and Gallienus
Terminal year (latest)

259
Opening year (earliest)

241
Opening year (latest)

243
Coin-level data

Entered

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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Fair

Associated features

Below the room’s floor of the room, a sewer was delimited and dug for the drainage of the waters associated with one of the two rooms, whose abandonment can be dated to the 3rd-4th centuries A.D. The hoard comes from the filling layer of the sewer.
Recovery method

Excavation
Site class

Urban

Context

Uncertain structure

Depositional context

Sewer

Period

Roman
End period

Roman

Objects belonging to this hoard

Gold ring
Ring with bezzel. Flat elliptical closed rod with rounded sides that widen towards the bezel. Decoration on the upper half with a wide band, motif with 5 concentric triangles engraved on the two sides of the ring; lower half decorated with stylized biconical pearls motif. Oval raised bezel with a flat base of convex type paste, imitation of a chalcedony niccolo.

Pair of gold earrings
Circle of smooth thread knotted at the closed riveted eyelet.

Pendant gold earring
Double curve suspension hook in smooth wire with welded button at the end.

Gold earring
Double-curve suspension hook on smooth wire, to which a circular base plate of a hexagonal pyramid is welded.

Pair of gold earrings
Double-curve suspension hook on smooth wire, to which a circular base plate of a hexagonal pyramid is welded.

References

Reference

Angeli Bufalini, G., Barbera, M. and Festuccia, S. - 2005 - Il tesoretto di via Turati all'Esquilino (Roma), 2002

Ref

71-80

URI 1

URI 2

Comment

Il tesoretto di via Turati all'Esquilino (Roma), 2002 73, fig. 1

URI 1

URI 2

Comment

Il tesoretto di via Turati all'Esquilino (Roma), 2002 73, fig. 1

Uploaded by C. Gazdac (June 2019).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

ROME 2001 - ESQUILINO, VIA TURATI

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Objects belonging to this hoard

Pair of gold earrings
Circle of smooth thread knotted at the closed riveted eyelet.

Pendant gold earring
Double curve suspension hook in smooth wire with welded button at the end.

Gold earring
Double-curve suspension hook on smooth wire, to which a circular base plate of a hexagonal pyramid is welded.

Pair of gold earrings
Double-curve suspension hook on smooth wire, to which a circular base plate of a hexagonal pyramid is welded.

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

ROME 2001 - ESQUILINO, VIA TURATI

Data not added to the map

Objects belonging to this hoard

Pair of gold earrings Circle of smooth thread knotted at the closed riveted eyelet.

Pendant gold earring Double curve suspension hook in smooth wire with welded button at the end.

Gold earring Double-curve suspension hook on smooth wire, to which a circular base plate of a hexagonal pyramid is welded.

Pair of gold earrings Double-curve suspension hook on smooth wire, to which a circular base plate of a hexagonal pyramid is welded.

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Pair of gold earrings
Circle of smooth thread knotted at the closed riveted eyelet.

Pendant gold earring
Double curve suspension hook in smooth wire with welded button at the end.

Gold earring
Double-curve suspension hook on smooth wire, to which a circular base plate of a hexagonal pyramid is welded.

Pair of gold earrings
Double-curve suspension hook on smooth wire, to which a circular base plate of a hexagonal pyramid is welded.