JEWISH QUARTER 1975

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Location

City

Jerusalem [ירושלים ;القُدس]

County

Jerusalem [ירושלים ;القُدس]

Region

Country

Israel

Ancient place

Ierusalem/Col. Aelia Capitolina

Lat/Long/Alt

31.775 / 35.233 / 746.84 view

Location details

Centred on field

Information

7609

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Hoard name

JEWISH QUARTER 1975

Alternative names

Old City, Jerusalem

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1975

Total number of coins

Summary

The hoard comprised 13 silver shekel and half-shekel coins from the first four years of the First Jewish Revolt (AD 66-70).

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Coins
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Credit

Discovery method

Controlled archaeological investigation (stratified)
Land Use

Built over
Disposition

Hebrew University
Finder(s)

Nahman Avigad
Comment

The coins were shekels and half-shekels of the first, second, third, and fourth years of the First Jewish Revolt.
Closing reign (earliest)

Uncertain
Terminal year (earliest)

69
Closing reign (latest)

Uncertain
Terminal year (latest)

70
Opening year (earliest)

66
Opening year (latest)

67
Coin-level data

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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Rating comment

Select permissions granted for unpublished hoards. Check CH 3, 88
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Fair

Date of excavation (from)

1969
Date of excavation (to)

1982
Site comment

The coins were found in a small pool of a building.
Date of context (to)

70
Recovery method

Excavation
Site class

Urban

Context

Domestic building

Depositional context

Pool

Period

Roman
End period

Roman

References

Reference

Avigad, N. - 1983 - Discovering Jerusalem

Ref

p. 195-196

Reference

Meshorer, Y. - 1989 - The Coins of Masada

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p. 75

Reference

Waner, M. - 1998 - Roman and Byzantine Coin Hoards From the Land of Israel. Catalogue and Analysis (in Hebrew)

Reference

Leonard Jr., R.D. - 2000 - Numismatic Evidence for the Authenticity of the Copper Scroll

Ref

p. 686

Reference

Waner, M. and Safrai, Z. - 2001 - A Catalogue of Coin Hoards and the Shelf Life of Coins in Palestine Hoards During the Roman and Byzantine Periods

Ref

No. 146

Comment

"Jewish Quarter (J'lem)"- Check CH 3, 1977 (no. 88)

Reference

Reich, R. - 2009 - The Sack of Jerusalem in 70 CE: Flavius Josephus’ Description and the Archaeological Record

Ref

p. 31

J. Goldman (Feb. 2017). Details of the hoard are from communication with D. T. Ariel of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Updated by C. Gazdac (Feb. 2022).

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