{"id":277170,"date":"2022-05-26T20:26:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T10:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/?p=277170"},"modified":"2023-05-02T17:51:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T07:51:46","slug":"gazas-forgotten-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/%d9%83%d9%86%d8%b2-%d8%ba%d8%b2%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b3%d9%8a\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza&#039;s forgotten treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"rtl\">Let&#039;s discover the story of Gaza&#039;s forgotten treasure in detail.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/%d9%83%d9%86%d8%b2-%d8%ba%d8%b2%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b3%d9%8a\/#%D8%A5%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%81_%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2_%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9\" >Discovering the treasure of Gaza<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/%d9%83%d9%86%d8%b2-%d8%ba%d8%b2%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b3%d9%8a\/#%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%A9\" >Defining the historical era<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/%d9%83%d9%86%d8%b2-%d8%ba%d8%b2%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b3%d9%8a\/#%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2\" >Selling the treasure<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/%d9%83%d9%86%d8%b2-%d8%ba%d8%b2%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b3%d9%8a\/#%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1\" >Resources<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\" id=\"0-%D8%A5%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%81-%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%D8%A5%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%81_%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2_%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9\"><\/span>Discovering the treasure of Gaza<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p dir=\"rtl\">Around the mid-1960s, a fisherman named \u201cSalama\u201d discovered a treasure trove of old coins in the Gaza Sea, consisting of 29 silver pieces of varying weights and styles. He immediately went to one of the goldsmiths in Gaza, who was famous for buying antique coins, named \u201cKhader Youssef Tarzi.\u201d \u201cKhader\u201d sensed the importance of the pieces that the simple fisherman was offering him.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">He bought it directly; and of course, he paid the fisherman a small amount that did not correspond to its importance. Later, Khader was able to determine the type of coins; their style indicated that they were struck in Greek cities, but he noticed that they were very diverse and some of them weighed nearly 40 grams; and they may belong to a period that precedes what he was used to seeing of ancient Greek coins. Khader kept the treasure and did not offer it for sale at that time, as he wanted to identify it accurately and document it, but after a short period, the war broke out between the Arabs and the Zionist entity in 1967, and one of its results was the occupation of the Gaza Strip, and as is known, chaos prevailed. Here, Khader felt the danger and decided to move the treasure to a safe place. .<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">He went to the Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City and asked to deposit the pieces with them. The church did indeed deposit them in one of its safe vaults after counting their weights and dimensions. The forgotten treasure of Gaza remained in that vault from 1967 until 2005, and the scientific community knew nothing about it.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">Finally, the church handed over the pieces to the heirs of \u201cKhader\u201d - his three sons \u201cYoussef\u201d, \u201cDaoud\u201d, and \u201cRawya\u201d, and the heirs allowed the researchers Dr. \u201cFernando Lopez Sanchez\u201d and \u201cDaniel Gomez Castro\u201d to document, study and publish the treasure before they put it up for sale.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"710\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/pub-8c6367eeb78947fb9a67f9647334fc7f.r2.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/167133351_448422856242059_8859728981496959122_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-279043\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A document issued by the Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza proves that the treasure, which had been in their possession since 1967, was handed over to the heirs of Khader Yousef Tarzi in 2005.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\" id=\"1-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%A9\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%A9\"><\/span>Defining the historical era<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p dir=\"rtl\">The researchers identified the historical period to which the hoard pieces belonged as the Late Archaic period, just before and possibly during the Persian Wars, between approximately 510 and 475 BC. It was interesting to note the appearance of some designs that had not been recorded before, and others similar to those recorded in the Asyut hoard for the first time. The hoard included pieces of the dodecadrachm, decadrachm, and octadrachm, which were the highest denominations of Greek silver coins and were not as common as the tetradrachm and drachm denominations.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">After counting the cities where those coins were struck, it became clear that most of them belonged to the region of Macedonia, but the treasure was not without the presence of Athens, Corinth, Leucas, Delphi, Lycia, and Kyrenia. Tracing the positions of those cities on the map drew for us the network of trade and international relations in the eastern Mediterranean at that time; it also showed the position of ancient Gaza at the heart of that network.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"419\" src=\"https:\/\/pub-8c6367eeb78947fb9a67f9647334fc7f.r2.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/166313508_448422932908718_7588778556603392902_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-279044\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Macedonia region, various categories, within the Gaza Treasure \u2013 CNG Special Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"584\" data-id=\"279047\" src=\"https:\/\/pub-8c6367eeb78947fb9a67f9647334fc7f.r2.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/166550312_448422976242047_2103954035153322478_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-279047\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"567\" data-id=\"279046\" src=\"https:\/\/pub-8c6367eeb78947fb9a67f9647334fc7f.r2.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/166948717_448422882908723_508243193388170795_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-279046\"><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption wp-element-caption\">Macedonia region, various categories, within the Gaza Treasure \u2013 CNG Special Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\" id=\"2-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2\"><\/span>Selling the treasure<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Tarzi family decided to sell the treasure and take it out of Gaza. Indeed, CNG announced that the treasure pieces would be auctioned together in January 2016. The price was estimated at $300,000, but the importance of the treasure caused the price at the auction to reach $450,000. As expected, the company did not announce the identity of the buyer.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Now we must unleash our logical imagination to try to understand how those silver pieces came together, and then investigate their fate and whereabouts at the bottom of the sea in that specific place for more than two thousand years, waiting for the hand of \u201cSalama,\u201d the fisherman, to pick them up and tell us tales of the past about which we know very little; contrary to what we think.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/pub-8c6367eeb78947fb9a67f9647334fc7f.r2.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/166846350_448423026242042_1229258462692148210_n.jpg\" alt=\"Gaza&#039;s forgotten treasure\" class=\"wp-image-279048\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Attica\/Athens, Tetradrachm class, within the Gaza Treasure \u2013 CNG Private Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"368\" height=\"511\" src=\"https:\/\/pub-8c6367eeb78947fb9a67f9647334fc7f.r2.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/166267339_448423052908706_6663950347112339977_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-279049\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Corinth, Lycia, and Cyrene, different categories, within the Gaza Treasure \u2013 CNG Special Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"379\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/pub-8c6367eeb78947fb9a67f9647334fc7f.r2.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/166280797_448423092908702_1849601749498452362_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-279050\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Delphi, Tridrachm Class, within the Gaza Treasure \u2013 CNG Special Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"701\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/pub-8c6367eeb78947fb9a67f9647334fc7f.r2.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/166865069_448423122908699_7448713204457897280_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-279051\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Delphi, the Tridrachm class, within the Gaza treasure \u2013 were sold separately from the lot that included the rest of the treasure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\" id=\"3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1\"><\/span>Resources<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u2013 Fernando L\u00f3pez S\u00e1nchez and Daniel G\u00f3mez Castro, The Gaza 1960s Hoard: An Assemblage of Archaic Greek Coins, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NUMISMATICS 2015 \/ page 1-8.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">-The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman coinage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a class=\"oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 py34i1dx\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cngcoins.com\/Coin.aspx?CoinID=300257&amp;fbclid=IwAR0JlBqpqreQAdywyJdanbbUT7d4TTWlJTHJpP6EW4_4LThgC-cjGGui1yo\" target=\"_blank\" 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The discovery of the Gaza treasure occurred around the mid-1960s when a fisherman named Salama discovered a hoard of ancient coins in the sea off Gaza. The hoard consisted of 29 silver pieces of varying weights and styles. He immediately went to a goldsmith in Gaza, Khader Yousef Tarzi, who was known for buying antique coins, and\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2090,"featured_media":279052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[333],"tags":[1217,1216,303,1220,1215,1214,307,1221,331,1218],"class_list":["post-277170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ancient-coins","tag-1217","tag-1216","tag-303","tag-1220","tag-1215","tag-1214","tag-307","tag-1221","tag-331","tag-1218"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}