在西西里岛偏远岛屿上发现的罗马硬币宝库

近 30 个罗马第纳尔的宝库藏在墙内和一块巨石下，是一个令人兴奋的发现

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，潘泰莱里亚岛的大雨导致一块土墙滑落，露出了一个古老的藏身之处和一批公元前 94 年至 78 年铸造的 27 枚第纳尔银币。

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

这些硬币是在潘泰莱里亚圣特雷莎卫城和圣马可卫城的一次大型清洁和修复项目中发现的。

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.

领导该项目的蒂宾根大学考古学家托马斯·谢弗解释说，大雨导致藏匿硬币的土墙恶化，一些硬币暴露在外，而另一些硬币是在巨石下发现的。这些硬币是在罗马铸造的，可追溯到公元前 94 至 74 年之间

“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.

政府声明指出：“沿海村庄经常遭到袭击，很容易想象有人在船只抵达时藏匿了积蓄，但无法收回。”

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

多年来，考古学家在潘泰莱里亚取得了许多非凡的发现。

“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.”

谢弗在声明中说：“我们在圣马可进行了二十五年的挖掘，这是一个很棒的遗址，幸运的是完好无损，几个世纪以来从未被触及过。”

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.

潘泰莱里亚的卫城甚至包括一个“委员会”，这是民选代表和罗马骑兵军官曾经聚集的地方。谢弗指出，这些极为罕见。

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

“整个意大利只有五个，而这是条件最好的一个，”他说。

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.

近年来，考古学家还在岛上发现了另一个令人惊叹的发现：三个重要罗马人的大理石头像。其中包括尤利乌斯·凯撒、罗马皇帝提图斯，以及一位可能是奥古斯都的孙女老阿格里帕或马克·安东尼的女儿小安东尼娅的女人。半身像是在硬币储藏室附近发现的。

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.

与此同时，这些硬币只是近几个月在该地区发现的一系列类似文物中的最新一件，其中包括克拉特纳出土的宝藏、撒丁岛发现的宝藏以及利沃诺发现的藏品。

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.

据文化遗产和西西里岛身份议员弗朗西斯科·保罗·斯卡皮纳托 (Francesco Paolo Scarpinato) 介绍，在潘泰莱里亚发现的硬币丰富了该岛丰富的考古遗产。

“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.”

“这一发现，”他评论道，“除了与这些发现相关的内在价值之外，还为重建共和时代地中海的事件、商业联系和政治关系提供了宝贵的信息。”