MILANO 1998 - CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

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Location

City

Milano

County

Milano

Region

Lombardia

Country

Italy

Ancient place

Mediolan(i)um

Lat/Long/Alt

45.461999 / 9.177008 / 119 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

16164

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Hoard name

MILANO 1998 - CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

Data type

Hoard?

Date of discovery (from)

1998

Total number of coins

Summary

Three denarii found at the bottom of a cooking pot. Probably, a foundation offering: 1 Republic, 2 Augustus (15-13 BC).

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Discovery method

Controlled archaeological investigation (stratified)
Land Use

Courtyard
Comment

Courtyard of the university
Closing reign (earliest)

Augustus
Terminal year (earliest)

-15
Closing reign (latest)

Augustus
Terminal year (latest)

-13
Opening year (earliest)

-113
Opening year (latest)

-112
Coin-level data

Entered

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Excellent
Findspot rating

Excellent

Date of excavation (from)

1986
Date of excavation (to)

2004
Site comment

Mediolanum was founded around 600 BC by the Celtic Insubres. The Romans, led by consul Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus, fought the Insubres and captured the city in 222 BC. A large stone wall encircled the city in Caesar's time, and later was expanded in the late third century AD, by Maximian. Mediolanum was made the seat of the prefect of Liguria (Praefectus Liguriae) by Hadrian, and Constantine I made it the seat of the vicar of Italy (Vicarius Italiae). In AD 259, Roman legions under the command of Emperor Gallienus soundly defeated the Alemanni in the Battle of Mediolanum. In AD 286, Diocletian moved the capital of the Western Roman Empire from Rome to Mediolanum It was from Milan that the Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan in AD 313, granting tolerance to all religions within the Empire, thus paving the way for Christianity to become the dominant religion of the Empire. In AD 402, the city was besieged by the Goths and the Imperial residence was moved to Ravenna. In AD 452, it was besieged again by Attila, but the real break with its Imperial past came in AD 538, during the Gothic War, when Mediolanum was laid to waste by Uraia, a nephew of Witiges, King of the Goths, with great loss of life. (Wikipedia)
Date of context (from)

50
Date of context (to)

50
Associated features

Settore UC VIII, UUSS 7751 e 7752. Mid-1st century AD. The vessel was inserted in a cut in the vicinity of the foundation trench of the north wall of a building
Recovery method

Excavation
Site class

Urban

Context

Domestic building

Depositional context

Foundation

Period

Roman
End period

Roman

Containers belonging to this hoard

Cooking pot

Reddish paste; Cooking pot with a pseudo-cylindrical body, flared lip with a slightly flattened rim, a slightly convex bottom. Lathe processing. On the shoulder horizontal smoothing splint marks. Irregular firing with non-homogeneous superficial blackening spots.

References

Reference

Perassi, C. - 2013 - Il possibile deposito di fondazione dagli scavi nei cortili dell'Università Cattolica

Ref

55-60

URI 1

URI 2

Comment

Perassi 2013, 55, fig. 1

URI 1

URI 2

Comment

Perassi 2013, 56, fig. 2

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Coin Hoards
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MILANO 1998 - CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Cooking pot

Reddish paste; Cooking pot with a pseudo-cylindrical body, flared lip with a slightly flattened rim, a slightly convex bottom. Lathe processing. On the shoulder horizontal smoothing splint marks. Irregular firing with non-homogeneous superficial blackening spots.

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Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

MILANO 1998 - CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Cooking pot

Reddish paste; Cooking pot with a pseudo-cylindrical body, flared lip with a slightly flattened rim, a slightly convex bottom. Lathe processing. On the shoulder horizontal smoothing splint marks. Irregular firing with non-homogeneous superficial blackening spots.

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