西西里岛附近地中海岛屿“隐藏在墙上的一个洞中”的古代银币宝藏

考古学家在西西里岛附近的一个地中海岛屿上发现了一批“藏在墙上的洞里”的古代银币，可能是在 2000 多年前的一次海盗袭击中。

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.

在西西里岛附近的一个地中海岛屿上，人们在“墙上的一个洞里”发现了 27 枚古代银币，可能是在 2000 多年前的一次海盗袭击中。

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.

根据西西里岛地方政府 9 月 2 日在 Facebook 上发布的帖子（在新选项卡中打开），这些硬币是在公元前 94 年至 74 年之间铸造的，当时该地区由罗马共和国统治。一些硬币描绘了人头的轮廓，但其身份尚未确定。

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.

考古学家在潘泰莱里亚岛挖掘圣特雷莎和圣马可卫城时发现了这处古代宝库，潘泰莱里亚岛位于西西里岛西南约 70 英里（110 公里）处，位于西西里岛和突尼斯之间的西西里海峡。

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.

部分废墟甚至比硬币还要古老，可以追溯到公元前三世纪和二世纪迦太基和罗马之间的布匿战争之前的布匿或迦太基时期

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海峡群岛发现的 1,600 年前的硬币上刻着被入侵的哥特人杀害的罗马皇帝

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.

根据翻译后的政府声明，该藏匿处是由德国蒂宾根大学领导的考古队发现的，该考古队已在该地点工作了 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.

声明称，这些硬币是在罗马铸造的，是“第纳尔”银币，这是数百年来的标准罗马硬币。当时，一第纳尔大约相当于 20 美元——大约是罗马军团士兵一天的工资。

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.

一些硬币是在雨天从墙上的泥土滑落后发现的，其余的则是在一块巨石下发现的。图宾根大学考古学家托马斯·谢弗在声明中表示，这些宝藏可能是在一次频繁的海盗袭击中隐藏起来的。

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.

海盗猖獗于地中海东部，经常袭击沿海定居点，直到公元前 67 年在罗马将军格奈乌斯·庞培·马格努斯（庞培大帝）发起的一场战役中被击败，庞培大帝是独裁者苏拉的心腹，他的名声在外。

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.

声明称，这批罗马硬币是在几年前在该地点发现的三座罗马雕像头部附近发现的。

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— 意大利北部“神奇之地”出土了 3,000 多枚罗马硬币和宝石

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——水肺潜水员在意大利海岸发现了 30,000 枚保存完好的罗马硬币

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.

大理石头像描绘的是尤利乌斯·凯撒；罗马皇帝提图斯，统治时间为公元 79 年至 81 年；还有一个女人，可能是罗马帝国第一位皇帝奥古斯都的孙女老阿格里皮娜（公元前 14 年至公元 33 年），也可能是小安东尼娅（公元前 36 年至公元 37 年）的女儿马克·安东尼.

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.

谢弗说，岛上的卫城遗址——罗马人称之为科西拉（Cossyra）或科苏拉（Cossura）——没有遭到掠夺者的破坏。它包括一个“委员会”或集会场所，用于该地区的“decurions”——一个地区民选代表以及罗马骑兵军官的名称。

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

他说，在意大利全国只发现了五个这样的委员会，而这个委员会的状况最好。