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A “Silversmith's Hoard” from Mesopotamia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

E. S. G. Robinson
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Sir E. Wallis Budge in his Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum (1922), notices on p. 236 an interesting group of coins and other objects formerly exhibited in a table-case in the Assyrian room which contained “miscellaneous antiquities chiefly from Quyunjik and Nimrûd.” The notice runs “The contents of the shop of a worker in metals, consisting of lead handle of jug, bronze ring, pieces of lead and silver and a group of Persian sigli and coins from Lycia, Samos, Tyre, Aspendus, Cyprus, Sidon, Athens, and Aegina.” The most important piece, the jug-handle (which is, of course, silver and not lead) has been already published by Filow and Paul Jacobsthal. The rest has escaped notice until now, and as it comprises some fragments, and a series of coins, interesting from more than one point of view, it seems worth while to record them more fully. I am indebted to the Keeper of the Department, Mr. C. J. Gadd, for his kind permission to do so here, and to Mr. R. D. Barnett, for help and advice on many points of detail. The coins have now been transferred to the Department of Coins and Medals.

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IRAQ , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Spring 1950 , pp. 44 - 51
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1950

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page 44 note 1 Die Grabehügelnekropole bei Duvanlij, Abb. 212. Early Celtic Art, I, p. 37, II, Plate 227BGoogle Scholar.

page 44 note 2 My thanks are due to Dr. Plenderleith and the staff of the British Museum Laboratory for their skill and care in this operation

page 48 note 1 Filow, , Trebenischte, p. 99Google Scholar, fig. 118, Bull de l'Inst. arch. Bulgare, IV (1926–1927), p. 59Google Scholar, Plate III. Fot a lat of animal-handles see Z. f. Assyriohgie, XLVIII (1944), p. 9Google Scholar.

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page 48 note 5 Dalton, ibid, p. 29, No. 109, Plate XVI, “Fifth century.”

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page 50 note 1 American Numismatic Society: Numismatic Notes and Monographs, No. 78. I have omitted hoards containing uncoined silver only.

page 50 note 2 For later references, see note 1, p. 49.

page 50 note 3 I owe this information, and a photograph of the coins actually on exhibition in the Kabul Museum some eight years ago, to the kindness of Mr. Benjamin Rowland, to whom my best thanks are due for allowing me to use his notes. As these concerned a part only of the total, and as I understand that the board is to be fully published by M. Daniel Schlumberger of the French Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan in due course, it seemed better not to publish them in further detail here. See also a brief reference in Bull. Soc. Française de Numismatique, 1950, no. 2, p. 2Google Scholar.

page 50 note 4 For the types of the latter cp. Babelon, , Traité des mon greques, Ilième Partie, Vol. 2, pp. 129–138Google Scholar; Illième Partie, Plate LXXXIX, Nos. 6–9, but here there is an Aramaic mem in the field. This variety seems to be new.

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page 51 note 2 Trans. Int. Num. Congress of 1956, p. 413 (E. Herzfeld)Google Scholar.

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page 51 note 4 E.g., in the last two years octadrachms of the Bisaltai and the Edonai have come on offer from Beyrouth.