00:00The Sheba hoard is an important Roman coin hoard dating from the 6th century and discovered in Sheba, Tunisia.
00:05It consists of gold coins from the Byzantine, Justinian and Maurice emperors.
00:10The treasure was discovered by chance on the shore in the late 1980s and did not
00:15the subject of a publication before the end of the 2010s,
00:17This leads to uncertainty about the number of coins it comprises, with a figure of 147 coins being mentioned.
00:23that only 109 are studied.
00:25The coins are now kept at the Madia Museum.
00:27The burial of the treasure is dated to the turn of the 6th and 7th centuries, at a time of unrest which...
00:33North Africa, the victim
00:34with the revolts of the tribes that died only a few decades before the start of the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.
00:39The Sheba treasure bears witness to a period of transition for the area of present-day Tunisia.
00:44Carthage passed from Vandal to Byzantine control, and the territory regained an important role in the Eastern Roman Empire.
00:49but local resistance and the difficulties of the Empire foreshadow the upheavals of the 7th century.
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