![]() “This was a huge amount of money by that time and would have allowed the owner to live comfortably for quite a long time” stated Castanyer and explained that a soldiers’ wage was about 10 denarius and that a monthly rent in that period was around 2 denarius.Įmpúries, a site with 108 years of success Waiting for the analysis to be completed, the archaeologists believe that the treasure would have been hidden intentionally and that his owner never had the change to recover it. According one of the responsible of the excavation team, Pere Castanyer “not even the most optimistic would have imagined that there were so many coins”. A ceramic-vase in the shape of an amphorae with 200 silver denarius inside. However, the most important discovery was found further from the cellar. This time, the archaeologists have focuses on the cellar, where 24 amphorae of wine were found, most of them of Italic origin, a slab of bronze -'simpulum'- to extract wine and two bracelets. In particular, inside a house of the 1st century BC which was excavated before. The discoveries were found on the oldest levels of the Roman city. Besides this treasure, 24 amphorae of wine have been discovered in the cellar the house, a slab of bronze -'simpulum'- to extract wine and two bracelets. The treasure would have been lost after a fire which hit the property. Thanks to the good conditions of the treasure, the archaeologists have concluded that the treasure would have been hidden by its owner in one of the rooms of the houses which are also being excavated. The last three weeks of excavations, carried out by thirty students attending the 70 th edition of Archaeology Course of Empúries, lead to the largest treasure ever found on the site a ceramic-vase containing 200 silver denarius dating from the 1st century B.C. Carl Meißner Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.Barcelona (CNA).- The 2,500-year-old Empúries site on the Costa Brava continues to provide surprises.denarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. ![]() Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) denarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D.Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers Cincinnati, Ohio Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company Oxford: Clarendon Press. “ denarius”, in Charlton T Lewis Charles Short (1879) A New Latin Dictionary, New York, N.Y.→ Ancient Greek: δηνάριον ( dēnárion ) ( see there for further descendants).→ Proto-Brythonic: *dinėr ( see there for further descendants).denarius (due to a single coin's value of 10 asses, each made of silver.)ġFound in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).( Ecclesiastical ) IPA ( key): /deˈna.ri.us/, ĭēnārius ( feminine dēnāria, neuter dēnārium) first/ second-declension adjectiveĭēnārius m ( genitive dēnāriī or dēnārī) second declension.( Classical ) IPA ( key): /deːˈnaː.ri.us/,.
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