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Gonio treasure, Roman time Georgia

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The Roman time treasure was found in 1974 on the outskirts of Gonio-Apsaros “in a metal vessel” that has not survived. It is dated to the 1st-3rd century.

Mikhail Treister ON JEWELLERY FROM THE FIRST CENTURIES CE COMPLEXES ON THE TERRITORY OF COLCHIS AND SURROUNDING AREASOF THE NORTH-EASTERN BLACK SEA REGION (ABOUT THE SO-CALLED STYLISTIC GROUP “GORGIPPIA — LOO”), 2023

https://batumelebi.netgazeti.ge/news/7264/

Złoto, niebieska szklana pasta

Gonio Treasure. Batumi, Archaeological Museum, inv.-no. 20110/14, 25. Gold appliqués with inlays (after M. Treister, Fig. 7)
The Batumi Archaeological Museum, an ornament from Apsaros https://www.limenproject.net
Gonio Treasure. Batumi, Archaeological Museum. 1—2 — gold phalera, front and rear sides, inv.-no. 20110/2; 2 — gold finial with pendants (4.9X2.5 cm), inv.-no. № 20110/13
[after Treister M., fig. 3]
©Giorgi Dumbadze

Gonio Treasure. Batumi, Archaeological Museum. Gold appliqués.
1 — inv.-no. unknown; 2 — inv.-no. 20110/5;
3—4 — front and rear sides, inv.-no. 20110/3
[after Treister M., fig. 8]

Gonio Treasure. Batumi, Archaeological Museum.
1 — pair of gold bracelets, inv.-nos. 20110/6—7;
2 — gold phiale, inv.-no. 20110/1;
3 — gold medallion, inv.-no. 20110/12;
4—7 — gold statuette-pendant, inv.-no. 20110/10
[after Treister M., fig. 2]
Gold figurine of a youth, solid cast; 2nd century CE
Photo ©Gubaz Varshalomidze
Medallion with an image of god Helios, 1st-2nd century CE
Photo ©Давид Вартумашвили

Medallion with an image of god Helios, gold and garnet, 5.4X4.9 cm.
1st-2nd century CE

Treister M.: “Lunula-pendant with a central insert depicting an en face bust of the deity Helios with brooch inserts on his shoulder, and one at the top of the loop and two at the bottom of the frame.”

https://ajaramuseums.ge/en/museums/arch/Pendant%20%201st-2nd%20centuries%20AD

©Giorgi Dumbadze

A gold ornament decorated with birds on the mountain slope and an image of a horse rider wearing a Phrygian cap.
Dated to the 2nd-3rd century.

Gonio Treasure. Gold plaques with inlays and pendants. Batumi, Archaeological Museum. 1 — inv.-no. 20110/26; 2 — inv.-no. 20110/17; 3—4 — inv.-nos. 20110/6
[after Treister M., fig. 6]

Treister 2023, str 340: “Plakietki te uważano za ozdobę pasów lub nakryć głowy, ale sądząc po dwóch małych pętelkach znajdujących się na odwrotnej stronie w środku jednej z płytek z otworami wzdłuż osi poziomej, można je raczej uznać za elementy naszyjników.”

©Giorgi Dumbadze
©Gubaz Varshalomidze
Amber and gold beads
Gonio Treasure. Batumi, Archaeological Museum.
1 — pair of gold appliqués, front and rear sides, inv.-no. 20110/20;
2 — four gold appliqués with inlays, inv.-nos. 20110/11—14; 3 — pair of amber pendants with gold cells with inlays, inv.-no. 20110/12;
4 — gold triangular plaque with fixation loop, inv.-no. 20110/23;
5 — pair of gold beads, inv.-no. 20110/18
[after Treister M., fig. 4]
Gonio Treasure. Batumi, Archaeological Museum. Two gold chains; 1st-2nd C
1 — inv.-nos. 20110/8, 19; 62.5X1.5 cm https://ajaramuseums.ge/en/museums/arch/Chain%20%201st%202nd%20centuries%20AD
2 — inv.-no. 20110/9
©Giorgi Dumbadze
Gold bowl, 2nd century CE. 4.8X18.8 cm
Batumi Archaeological Museum Collection Inv. № 1: 12-105
https://ajaramuseums.ge/en/museums/arch/Cup%20%201st-2nd%C2%A0%20centuries%20AD
https://www.academia.edu/resource/work/41215089
Denar, silver coin of the Emperor Caracalla (211-217 CE) minted in Rome • Weight 3.41 gr. • Found in Gonio-Apsaros
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Reverse of Julia Domna coin from the mint in Caesarea, discovered in Apsaros (photo by P. Jaworski)

“Bronze and silver Roman coins have been discovered by a Polish-Georgian team of archaeologists conducting excavations in the Roman fort of Apsaros, Georgia. According to the discoverers, this could be a small part of a larger treasure.

The oldest coins in the find were minted during the reign of Hadrian (117-138 AD); the youngest come from the last years of the reign of Septimius Severus (beginning of the 3rd century AD).”

Source:

PAP – Science in Poland, Szymon Zdziebłowski
https://naukawpolsce.pl/node/30287

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    Collection de l’Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité Année 2002 853 pp. 251-262
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