在偏遠的西西里島上發現的羅馬硬幣寶庫

近 30 個羅馬第納爾的寶庫藏在牆內和一塊巨石下，是一個令人興奮的發現

Heavy rain on the island of Pantelleria recently caused a piece of earthen wall to slide off, revealing an ancient hiding place and a hoard of 27 silver denarii minted between 94 and 78 B.C.E.

最近，潘泰萊裡亞島的大雨導致一塊土牆滑落，露出了一個古老的藏身之處和一批公元前 94 年至 78 年鑄造的 27 枚第納爾銀幣。

The coins were discovered during a larger cleaning and restoration project of the Acropolis of Santa Teresa and San Marco on Pantelleria.

這些硬幣是在潘泰萊裡亞聖特雷莎衛城和聖馬可衛城的大型清潔和修復項目中發現的。

Archaeologist Thomas Schäfer of the University of Tübingen, who led the project, explained that some of the coins were exposed after heavy rains caused the earthen wall in which they were hidden to deteriorate, while others were found beneath a boulder. The coins were minted in Rome, and have been dated to between 94 and 74 B.C.E.

領導該計畫的蒂賓根大學考古學家托馬斯·謝弗解釋說，大雨導致藏匿硬幣的土牆惡化，一些硬幣暴露在外，而另一些硬幣是在巨石下發現的。這些硬幣是在羅馬鑄造的，可追溯到公元前 94 至 74 年之間

“There were frequent raids against the villages along the coast and it is easy to imagine that someone hid the nest egg when the ships arrived, without being able to recover it,” the government statement notes.

政府聲明指出：“沿海村莊經常遭到襲擊，很容易想像有人在船隻抵達時藏匿了積蓄，但無法收回。”

Over the years, archaeologists have made a number of remarkable finds on Pantelleria.

多年來，考古學家在潘泰萊裡亞取得了許多非凡的發現。

“We have been excavating for twenty-five years now in San Marco,” Schäfer said in the statement, “it is a wonderful site, fortunately intact, it has never been touched over the centuries.”

謝弗在聲明中說：“我們在聖馬可進行了二十五年的挖掘，這是一個很棒的遺址，幸運的是完好無損，幾個世紀以來從未被觸及過。”

The acropolis on Pantelleria even includes a “comitium,” a place where elected representatives and Roman cavalry officers would have once gathered. These, Schäfer noted, are extremely rare.

潘泰萊裡亞的衛城甚至包括一個“委員會”，這是民選代表和羅馬騎兵軍官曾經聚集的地方。謝弗指出，這些極為罕見。

“There are only five in all of Italy and this is the one in the best conditions,” he said.

「整個義大利只有五個，而這是條件最好的一個，」他說。

In recent years, archaeologists also made another stunning find on the island: three marble heads of significant Romans. These included Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor Titus, and a woman who may have been Agrippa the Elder, a granddaughter of Augustus, or Antonia the younger, a daughter of Mark Antony. The busts were found near the coin hoards.

近年來，考古學家還在島上發現了另一個令人驚嘆的發現：三個重要羅馬人的大理石頭像。其中包括尤利烏斯·凱撒、羅馬皇帝提圖斯，以及一位可能是奧古斯都的孫女老阿格里帕或馬克·安東尼的女兒小安東尼婭的女人。半身像是在硬幣儲藏室附近發現的。

These coins, meanwhile, are just the latest in a series of similar artifacts discovered throughout the region in recent months, including the trove unearthed in Claterna, the hoard found in Sardinia, and the cache uncovered in Livorno.

同時，這些硬幣只是近幾個月在該地區發現的一系列類似文物中的最新一件，其中包括克拉特納出土的寶藏、撒丁島發現的寶藏以及利沃諾發現的藏品。

According to Francesco Paolo Scarpinato, the councilor for Cultural Heritage and Sicilian Identity, the coins found on Pantelleria add to the island’s rich archaeological heritage.

根據文化遺產和西西里島身份議員弗朗西斯科·保羅·斯卡皮納托 (Francesco Paolo Scarpinato) 介紹，在潘泰萊裡亞發現的硬幣豐富了島上豐富的考古遺產。

“This discovery,” he remarked, “in addition to the intrinsic value linked to the finds, offers precious information for the reconstruction of events, commercial contacts and political relations that marked the Mediterranean in the Republican age.”

“這一發現，”他評論道，“除了與這些發現相關的內在價值之外，還為重建共和時代地中海的事件、商業聯繫和政治關係提供了寶貴的信息。”