Coin Finds from the Surveys of Northern Pisidia and the Excavations at Timbriada and Zindan Monastery

Year 2024, Issue: 27, 313 - 334, 15.12.2024

Hüseyin Köker , Esra Tütüncü

https://doi.org/10.47589/adalya.1609810

Abstract

The subject of this study is the coin finds from the surveys and excavations in the region of Northern Pisidia carried out between 2014 and 2023. The settlements included in the surveys
are Kapıkaya, Yalakasar, Sandalion, Mallos, Parlais, Prostanna, Yuvalı / Dreskene village, Timbriada and Tynada, whereas the archaeological excavations were limited to Timbriada and Zindan Monastery. During the research and excavations, a total of 111 bronze coins and one silver coin were discovered. The coins were catalogued and stored for further examination. The coin finds span a broad time,
encompassing Hellenistic, Roman provincial, Roman imperial, Byzantine, and Turkish. Thus, the earliest coin dates back to the second century BC, while the most recent coin dates to the 17th century AD.

Keywords

Mallos, Parlais, Prostanna, Timriada, Tynada, coins

Thanks

We would like to express our gratitude to Mustafa Akaslan, the director of Isparta Archaeological Museum and the head of the excavation at Timbriada and Zindan Monastery, as well as Prof. Dr. Fikret Özcan, the head of surveys and scientific advisor of excavations, for granting us the permission to study the coin finds. We would like to thank to İlkay Atav for obtaining the map; Münevver Şimşek for providing the photographs and inventory records on some of the coins; and Prof. Dr. A. Tolga Tek for his invaluable comments and insights on the paper. Prof. Dr. Zeliha Demirel Gökalp, Assoc. Prof. Ali Mıynat, and Gültekin Teoman helped to identify some of the Byzantine and Islamic coins. Additionally, we extend our thanks to Research Assistant Salih O. Akgönül for capturing the photographs and Burçak Aydın for the Photoshop work.

Coin Finds from the Surveys of Northern Pisidia and the Excavations at Timbriada and Zindan Monastery

Abstract

The subject of this study is the coin finds from the surveys and excavations in the region of Northern Pisidia carried out between 2014 and 2023. The settlements included in the surveys are Kapıkaya, Yalakasar, Sandalion, Mallos, Parlais, Prostanna, Yuvalı / Dreskene village, Timbriada and Tynada, whereas the archaeological excavations were limited to Timbriada and Zindan Monastery. During the research and excavations, a total of 111 bronze coins and one silver coin were discovered. The coins were catalogued and stored for further examination. The coin finds span a broad time, encompassing Hellenistic, Roman provincial, Roman imperial, Byzantine, and Turkish. Thus, the earliest coin dates back to the second century BC, while the most recent coin dates to the 17th century AD.

Keywords

Mallos, Parlais, Prostanna, Timbriada, Tynada, coins

Thanks

We would like to express our gratitude to Mustafa Akaslan, the director of Isparta Archaeological Museum and the head of the excavation at Timbriada and Zindan Monastery, as well as Prof. Dr. Fikret Özcan, the head of surveys and scientific advisor of excavations, for granting us the permission to study the coin finds. We would like to thank to İlkay Atav for obtaining the map; Münevver Şimşek for providing the photographs and inventory records on some of the coins; and Prof. Dr. A. Tolga Tek for his invaluable comments and insights on the paper. Prof. Dr. Zeliha Demirel Gökalp, Assoc. Prof. Ali Mıynat, and Gültekin Teoman helped to identify some of the Byzantine and Islamic coins. Additionally, we extend our thanks to Research Assistant Salih O. Akgönül for capturing the photographs and Burçak Aydın for the Photoshop work.

References

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