Tell Ahmar (anc. Til-Barsib), Mesopotamia, on the road between Hierapolis in Cyrrhestica and Edessa in Mesopotamia at the crossing of the Euphrates
Deposition
110 B.C.-105 B.C.
Fynd
1929
Beskrivning
70 coins
Referens
Bellinger, AJA 1938, p. 318, Lewis, NC 1962, p. 279, Rostovtzeff, Anatolian Stud. Buckler, p. 298, Seyrig, Trésors du Levant (in press), Thompson, Athens, p. 474; NC 1962, pp. 310 f., Thureau-Dangin and Dunand, Til-Barsib (Paris, 1936), pp. 81 f.
Oxus River (Takhti-Kubad, at junction of modern Vaksh and Piandzh Rivers), Shaartuz raion, Tadzhikistan (anc. Sogdiana)
Deposition
180 B.C.-170 B.C.
Fynd
1887
Beskrivning
1500 coins
Referens
BMC Arabia, pp. CXLVIII-CLV, Bellinger, ANSMN 10 (1962), pp. 51-67, Cunningham, JASB 1881, pp. 151-86; 1883, pp. 64, 258, Dalton, The Treasure of the Oxus (London, 1905; 2nd ed. 1926), Gardner, NC 1879, pp. 1-12; 1881, p. 12, Hill, AttiMemIIN III.2 (1919), pp. 23-33, Regling, ZfN 1928, p. 96, Robinson, Iraq 1950, p. 51, Schlumberger, L'argent grec, pp. 46-9, Whitehead, NC 1943, pp. 66-8, Zeimal'-Zeimal' IzvOtdelObshchestNaukANTSSR (Dushanbe, 1962), pp. 40-5
Babelon, RN 1912, pp. 1-40, illus. (= Mélanges 4, pp. 304-43), Kraay, NC 1956, p. 49, Orsi, AttiMemIIN 1919, p. 29, Vlasto, through whose hands the bulk of the hd. passed, was convinced that the whole formed a single find. This firsthand opinion should carry more weight than Orsi's subsequent claim that the "hoard" was a conflation of several finds
AR. Pot hoard: Uncertain count noted in IGCH including 6 [uncertain], which each has been counted as 1. Then, the total count comes to at least 6 coins
Babelon, Mélanges 3, pp. 41-8 = RN 1894, pp. 278-85 (mistakenly attributes to this tetradr. of Samos with prow symbol), Barron, Samos, pp. 43, 178-9, von Sallet, ZfN 1876, pp. 135-6, illus.; 1878, pp. 103-5