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Coin Silver Source’s Evolution in Bosporos from the Fifth – Fourth Centuries BC to the Second – Third Centuries AD According to Pb-Isotopic Analysis

Эволюция источников монетного серебра на Боспоре в V–IV вв. до н.э. – II–III вв. н.э. по данным изотопного анализа Pb

Чугаев

А. В.

Chugaev

Andrey V.

Сапрыкина

И. А.

Saprykina

Irina A.

Институт геологии рудных месторождений, петрографии, минералогии и геохимии Российской академии наук Россия Институт геологии рудных месторождений, петрографии, минералогии и геохимии Российской академии наук Russian Federation

Институт археологии Российской академии наук Россия Институт археологии Российской академии наук Russian Federation

21 02 2023

467 490 21 12 2022

https://maiet.cfuv.ru/evolyuciya-istochnikov-monetnogo-serebra-na-bospore-v-v-iv-vv-do-n-e-ii-iii-vv-n-e-po-dannym-izotopnogo-analiza-pb/

Настоящая публикация посвящена обобщению результатов аналитических исследований боспорского монетного серебра, выполненных методом изотопного анализа Pb, и вопросу эволюции источников поступления серебра на территорию Боспора в период с V–IV вв. до н.э. по II–III вв. н.э. Pb-изотопные характеристики монетного серебра, происходящего с территории Боспора (https://www.archaeolog.ru/ru/data/isoarchmet-iaras), сравнивались с новейшими данными, полученными для монетного серебра Великой Греции, Карфагена и Рима, что позволило уточнить круг регионов добычи серебра, поступавшего на территорию Боспора в разные хронологические периоды. Так, на раннем этапе монетной чеканки Боспора использовалось серебро из месторождений Лавриона, п-ва Халкидики и Родопских гор. В отличие от греческого монетного серебра, доля месторождений п-ва Халкидики и Родопских гор в боспорской чеканке значительно превышает долю серебра из рудников Лавриона. В период III–I вв. до н.э. боспорская чеканка работала на этом же «старом» серебре, но встречается сырье и из другого источника, сходного с источником для монетного серебра Карфагена (Иберийский п-в); римского монетного серебра на территории Боспора это время пока не фиксируется. В период II–III вв. н.э. основным источником монетного серебра на Боспоре являются римские рудники, расположенные в Дакии (регион Роша Монтанэ); встречается также серебро, добытое на римских рудниках Иберии и Центрального Французского массива.

This article generalizes the results of analytical studies of Bosporan coin silver made by Pb isotope analysis and the researches of the evolution of sources of silver supply to Bosporos the fifth – fourth centuries BC to the second – third centuries AD. Pb-isotope characteristics of coin silver originating from the territory of Bosporos (https://www.archaeolog.ru/ru/data/isoarchmet-iaras) have been compared with the latest data obtained for the coin silver of Magna Graecia, Carthage, and Rome, which made it possible to clarify the range of silver mining regions supplying the territory of Bosporos in different chronological periods. This way, at the early stage of the Bosporan coinage, silver was used from the mines of Lavrion, Chalkidiki Peninsula, and the Rhodope Mountains. Unlike Greek coin silver, the share of mines on the Chalkidiki Peninsula and the Rhodope Mountains in Bosporan coinage significantly exceeds the share of silver from the mines of Lavrion. Although from the third to first centuries BC, Bosporan coinage worked on the same “old” silver, the finds also contained raw materials from another source similar to the source for the coin silver of Carthage (Iberian Penionsula); no Roman coin silver have been documented in Bosporos in the period in question. In the second and third centuries AD, the main source of coin silver in Bosporos were the Roman mines located in Dacia (Roșia Montană region); there was also silver from the Roman mines of Iberia and the Massif Central in modern France.

Боспор Великая Греция Карфаген Рим монеты серебро изотопный анализ Pb рудные источники

Bosporos Magna Graecia Carthage Rome coins silver Pb-isotopic analysis ore sources

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