The paper concerns the unique discovery of a tresure of 130 silver coins (dirhams) from the early Islamic layer of the citadel of Kafir Kala (Samarkand, Uzbekistan). The treasure was found by the Uzbek-Italian joint expedition during the 2006 season. This dicovery is very useful to understand the Islamic occupation of Samarkand region after the Arab conquest at the beginning of the 8th century AD.
Kafirkalinskiy klad serebryanykh monet 2-oy pol. VII-nach. IX v. (A treasure of silver coins of the 2nd half of the 7th-early 9th c. AD from Kafir Kala)
MANTELLINI, SIMONE
2012
Abstract
The paper concerns the unique discovery of a tresure of 130 silver coins (dirhams) from the early Islamic layer of the citadel of Kafir Kala (Samarkand, Uzbekistan). The treasure was found by the Uzbek-Italian joint expedition during the 2006 season. This dicovery is very useful to understand the Islamic occupation of Samarkand region after the Arab conquest at the beginning of the 8th century AD.File in questo prodotto:
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