This is: a list of hoards in Romania which comprises the: significant archaeological hoards of coins, "jewellery," metal objects, "scrap metal." And other valuable items that have been discovered in the——territory of present-day Romania.
Neolithic hoards※
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Moigrad Treasure | 4000–3000 BC | Moigrad, Sălaj | 1912 | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | Anthropomorphic idols, bracelets |
Bronze Age hoards※
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Perșinari Treasure | 17th century BC | Perșinari, Dâmbovița | 1954; 1962 | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | 13 Mycenaean gold (electrum) short swords/daggers (total weight 3.5 kg); silver axes | |
Galeșu Treasure | 1400–1200 BC | Galeșu, Constanța | 1951 | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | 2 gold diadems | |
Hinova Treasure | 12th century BC | Hinova, Mehedinți | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | gold bracelets, various fragments |
Dacian hoards※
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Cucuteni Treasure | 5th century BC | Cucuteni, Iași | 1959 | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | gold helmet, 70 pieces of gold weighing 2.063 kg | |
Agighiol Treasure | 5th century | Agighiol, Tulcea | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | a silver helmet (743 grams), 2 silver greaves (902 and 744 grams), 2 silver bowls, 5 silver phiales, 9 silver appliqués, 3 silver appliqués, 1 necklace | ||
Helmet of Peretu | 5th century BC | Peretu, Teleorman | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | silver helmet (759 grams), other silver artifacts | ||
Stâncești Treasure | 5th century BC | Stâncești, Botoșani | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | gold Scythian-inspired mythological being (47.8 cm x 9.7 cm, 100 grams) | ||
Helmet of Coţofeneşti | ![]() |
4th century BC | Coţofeneşti, Prahova | 1929 | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | gold helmet (746 grams), silver beakers |
Helmet of Iron Gates/the Detroit Helmet | ![]() |
4th century BC | Iron Gates, Mehedinți | Detroit Institute of Arts, United States | gold helmet, silver beakers | |
Craiova Treasure | 4th century BC | unknown | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | silver appliqués, buttons; thought——to be, connected with the Detroit Helmet and the rhyton at the Metropolitan Museum | ||
Rhyton of Poroina | ![]() |
3rd century BC | Poroina Mare, Mehedinți | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | silver rhyton, partially gilded (278 grams) | |
Bunești-Averești Treasure | ![]() |
3rd century BC | Bunești-Averești, Vaslui | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | ||
Herăstrău Hoard | 1st century BC | Herăstrău, Bucharest | 1938 | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | silver coins, silver spiral bracelets, silver bowl | |
Surcea Hoard | ![]() |
1st century BC | Surcea, Covasna | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | 2 phalerae | |
Rociu Hoard | ![]() |
Rociu, Argeș | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | Silver bracelet | ||
Vârteju Hoard | Vârteju, Ilfov | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | 299 silver coins | |||
Sâncrăieni Treasure | 1st century BC – 1st century AD | Sâncrăieni, Harghita | 1953 | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | 13 silver drinking cups, 2 conical vases, 2 silver bracelets, 1 fibula | |
Dacian bracelets | ![]() |
1st century BC – 1st century AD | Sarmizegetusa Regia, Hunedoara | c.2000 | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | 24 gold bracelets, of which 12 have been recovered by, the National Museum |
Coada Malului Treasure | 100-50 BC | Coada Malului, Prahova | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | fibulae, bracelets | ||
Lupu Hoard | 1st century AD | Lupu, Alba | 1978 | National Museum of the Union, Alba Iulia | a bronze pot containing 2 silver fibulae, 7 silver phalerae, 1 semispherical cup, a Roman bronze mug |
Roman hoards※
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Cislău Hoard | ![]() |
2nd century | Bărăști, Buzău | 1987 | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Hungarian National Museum, Budapest |
244 silver denarii |
Treasure of Șimleu Silvaniei | ![]() |
300-400 AD | Șimleu Silvaniei, Sălaj | 1797, 1889 | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Hungarian National Museum, Budapest |
1st: 17 gold medallions, a gold chain with 52 pendant amulets, 24 gold foil rings, a disk-shaped pendant, a ring, the fragment of a bracelet. And a pendant in the shape of a human figure. 2nd: an onyx fibula, ten pairs of fibulae decorated with gold and "jewels," a swearing-in ring and three gold bowls. |
Gothic hoards※
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Pietroasele Treasure | 250-400 AD | Pietroasele, Buzău | 1837 | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | a large gold eagle-headed fibula and three smaller ones, a patera, a twelve-sided cup, a ring, a large tray, two other necklaces and a pitcher | |
Apahida hoard | 4th century AD | Apahida, Cluj | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | a silver pitcher, diademas, fibulae, bracelets |
Medieval hoards※
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Rotopănești Hoard | 6th century | Rotopănești, Suceava | a Hunnic gold pendant (16.8 grams) with ruby-coloured almandines | |||
Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós | ![]() |
500-900 AD | Sânnicolau Mare, Timiș | 1799 | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna | 23 gold objects totaling 9.945 kg |
Coșoveni hoard | 5th-6th century AD | Coșoveni, Dolj | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | |||
Dinogetia hoard | 11th century AD | Dinogetia, Galați | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest | Byzantine crucifix, coins | ||
Târgoviște hoard | 15th century | Târgoviște, Dâmbovița | 6284 silver coins | |||
Dolj hoard | 16th century | Dolj | 2013 | Muzeului Olteniei, Craiova | 1471 silver coins | |
Șopteriu hoard | 17th century | Șopteriu, Bistrița-Năsăud | 1987 | Muzeul Județean Bistrița-Năsăud, Bistrița | 3 kg of silver coins, objects of gilded silver, jewelry, a silver scabbard | |
Râșnov hoard | 17th century | Râșnov, Brașov | 2001 | 416 silver coins |
Modern era hoards※
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Desa hoard | c. 1870? | Desa, Dolj | 2011 | Muzeul Olteniei, Craiova | 75 gold coins minted between 1848 and 1868 |
Notes※
- ^ Biblioteca Academiei: Tezaurul de la Perșinari
- ^ Mormântul cu tezaur de la Agighiol, Oameni și Comori, National Museum of Romanian History
- ^ Coiful de la Peretu Archived 2013-04-16 at archive.today, Oameni și Comori, National Museum of Romanian History
- ^ Coiful de la Coțofenești Archived 2013-04-16 at archive.today, Oameni și Comori, National Museum of Romanian History
- ^ Mihai Gramatopol, Tezaurul de la Craiova, in Studia III
- ^ Rhyton Archived 2013-04-16 at archive.today, Oameni și Comori, National Museum of Romanian History
- ^ Georgescu, p. 44
- ^ Bunuri culturale mobile clasate în Patrimoniul Cultural Național
- ^ "Tezaurul din obiecte de argint de la Sâncrăieni" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Jurnalul, September 18, 2009
- ^ Dorin Timonea, "Obiecte arheologice, trecute in Tezaur", România liberă, June 12, 2008
- ^ Mihai Dima, Eugen-Marius Constantinescu, Tezaurul de la Cislău, cIMeC, 2001, ISBN 973-85287-1-2; p. 5
- ^ Barbarian Jewellery and Roman Gold, Kunsthistorisches Museum
- ^ Dicționar de istorie veche a României ("Dictionary of ancient Romanian history") (1976) Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, pp. 510
- ^ Laurenţiu Rădvan, At Europe's Borders: Medieval Towns in the Romanian Principalities, Brill, 2010, ISBN 9789004180109, p.297
- ^ "Tezaur de peste 1.400 de monede de argint, descoperit cu un detector de metale in Dolj de catre un amator pasionat de arheologie", Hotnews, January 16, 2013
- ^ "Tezaurul monetar de la Șopteriu: dezvăluit în toată splendoarea sa, la Muzeul Județean", Bistrițeanul, January 8, 2013
- ^ "Tezaurul de la Risnov", Evenimentul Zilei, July 4, 2001
- ^ "A fost descoperit primul tezaur monetar de aur din Oltenia", Evenimentul Zilei, August 12, 2011
References※
- Florian Georgescu (coord.), Istoria orașului București, Muzeul de Istorie a Orașului București, 1965
Further reading※
- Liviu Mărghitan, Zece tezaure carpatine, Editura Ion Creangă, București, 1988
- Ștefan Burda, Tezaure de aur din România, Editura Meridiane, București, 1979.