Abstract
The excavations at Ḥorbat Basha yielded 53 coins, 24 of which were identified. All the coins are bronze, except for a silver fraction of a dirham. The bulk of the numismatic evidence comprises Late Roman minimi, dating from the first quarter of the fourth century until the mid-fifth century CE; five were discovered at the bottom of a collecting vat of a winepress. The absence of sixth-century CE coins at the site stands in contrast to the abundance of pottery and glass vessels from this period—a phenomenon previously recorded at other sites in the region.
Keywords
Ashqelon, numismatics
Recommended Citation
Bijovsky, Gabriela
(2018)
"The Coins from Ḥorbat Basha (pp. 65–71),"
'Atiqot: Vol. 93, Article 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.1992
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol93/iss1/7
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