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‘Atiqot 93 (2018)
ISBN 2948-040X
The Coins from Ḥorbat Basha
(pp. 65–71)
Gabriela Bijovsky
Keywords: Ashqelon, numismatics
The excavations at Ḥorbat Basha yielded 53 coins, 24 of which were identified. All the coins are bronze, except for a silver fraction of a dirham. The bulk of the numismatic evidence comprises Late Roman minimi, dating from the first quarter of the fourth century until the mid-fifth century CE; five were discovered at the bottom of a collecting vat of a winepress. The absence of sixth-century CE coins at the site stands in contrast to the abundance of pottery and glass vessels from this period—a phenomenon previously recorded at other sites in the region.