西西里島附近地中海島嶼「隱藏在牆上的一個洞中」的古代銀幣寶庫

考古學家在西西里島附近的一個地中海島嶼上發現了一批「藏在牆上的洞裡」的古代銀幣，可能是在 2000 多年前的一次海盜襲擊中。

A trove of 27 ancient silver coins has been discovered "hidden in a hole in the wall" on a Mediterranean island near Sicily, possibly during a pirate attack more than 2,000 years ago.

在西西里島附近的一個地中海島嶼上，人們在「牆上的一個洞裡」發現了 27 枚古代銀幣，可能是在 2000 多年前的一次海盜襲擊中。

The coins were minted between 94 and 74 B.C. when the region was ruled by Rome, a republic at that time, according to a Sept. 2 Facebook post (opens in new tab) by Sicily's regional government. Some of the coins portray the profile of a human head, which has not yet been identified.

根據西西里島地方政府 9 月 2 日在 Facebook 上發布的帖子（在新選項卡中打開），這些硬幣是在公元前 94 年至 74 年之間鑄造的，當時該地區由羅馬共和國統治。一些硬幣描繪了人頭的輪廓，但其身份尚未確定。

Archaeologists found the ancient trove while excavating the Acropolis of Santa Teresa and San Marco on the island of Pantelleria, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) southwest of Sicily, in the Sicilian Strait bounded by Sicily and Tunisia.

考古學家在潘泰萊裡亞島挖掘聖特雷莎和聖馬可衛城時發現了這座古代寶庫，潘泰萊裡亞島位於西西里島西南約70 英里（110 公里）處，位於西西里島和突尼斯之間的西西里海峽。

Parts of the ruins are even older than the coins and date from the Punic or Carthaginian period, before the Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome in the third and second centuries B.C.

部分廢墟甚至比硬幣還要古老，可以追溯到公元前三世紀和二世紀迦太基和羅馬之間的布匿戰爭之前的布匿或迦太基時期

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海峽群島發現的 1,600 年前的硬幣上刻著被入侵的哥德人殺害的羅馬皇帝

The stash was discovered by an archaeological team led by Germany's University of Tübingen, which has worked at the site for 25 years, according to a translated government statement.

根據翻譯後的政府聲明，該藏匿處是由德國蒂賓根大學領導的考古隊發現的，該考古隊已在該地點工作了 25 年。

The coins had been minted in Rome and were silver "denarii", the standard Roman coin for hundreds of years, the statement said. At this time, a single denarius was equivalent to about $20 — roughly a day's pay for a soldier in the Roman legions.

聲明稱，這些硬幣是在羅馬鑄造的，是「第納爾」銀幣，這是數百年來的標準羅馬硬幣。當時，一第納爾大約相當於 20 美元——大約是羅馬軍團士兵一天的工資。

Some of the coins were discovered after earth from the wall had slipped away following rainy weather, and the rest were found under a boulder. The hoard was probably hidden during one of the frequent pirate attacks at this time, University of Tübingen archaeologist Thomas Schäfer said in the statement.

有些硬幣是在雨天從牆上的泥土滑落後發現的，其餘的則是在一塊巨石下發現的。圖賓根大學考古學家托馬斯·謝弗在聲明中表示，這些寶藏可能是在一次頻繁的海盜襲擊中隱藏起來的。

Pirates infested the eastern Mediterranean Sea and often raided coastal settlements until their defeat in 67 B.C. in a campaign waged by the Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus — Pompey the Great — who had risen to prominence as a henchman of the dictator Sulla.

海盜猖獗於地中海東部，經常襲擊沿海定居點，直到公元前67 年在羅馬將軍格奈烏斯·龐培·馬格努斯（龐培大帝）發起的一場戰役中被擊敗，龐培大帝是獨裁者蘇拉的心腹，他的名聲在外。

The trove of Roman coins was found near the location of the heads of three Roman statues that had been discovered at the site a few years earlier, the statement reported.

聲明稱，這批羅馬硬幣是在幾年前在該地點發現的三座羅馬雕像頭部附近發現的。

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— 義大利北部「神奇之地」出土了 3,000 多枚羅馬硬幣和寶石

—1,700-year-old 'emergency hoard' of coins dates to last revolt of Jews against Roman rule

— 1700 年前的「緊急儲備」硬幣可以追溯到猶太人最後一次反抗羅馬統治的時期

—Scuba diver discovers 30,000 astonishingly well-preserved Roman coins off Italian coast

——水肺潛水員在義大利海岸發現了 30,000 枚保存完好的羅馬硬幣

The marble heads portrayed Julius Caesar; the Roman emperor Titus, who ruled from A.D. 79 to 81; and a woman who may have been either Agrippina the Elder (lived from 14 B.C. to A.D. 33), a granddaughter of Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire, or Antonia the Younger (lived from 36 B.C. to A.D. 37), a daughter of Mark Antony.

大理石頭像描繪的是尤利烏斯·凱撒；羅馬皇帝提多，統治時間為西元 79 年至 81 年；還有一個女人，可能是羅馬帝國第一位皇帝奧古斯都的孫女老阿格里皮娜（公元前14 年至公元33 年），也可能是小安東尼婭（公元前36 年至公元37年）的女兒馬克‧安東尼.

Schäfer said the Acropolis site on the island — called Cossyra or Cossura by the Romans — was untouched by looters. It included a "comitium," or place of assembly, for the region's "decurions" — a name given to the elected representatives of a region, and also to Roman cavalry officers.

謝弗說，島上的衛城遺址——羅馬人稱之為科西拉（Cossyra）或科蘇拉（Cossura）——沒有遭到掠奪者的破壞。它包括一個「委員會」或集會場所，用於該地區的「decurions」——一個地區民選代表以及羅馬騎兵軍官的名稱。

Only five such comitia had been discovered in all of Italy, and this one was in the best condition, he said.

他說，在義大利全國只發現了五個這樣的委員會，而這個委員會的狀況最好。