- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1.1965.2733
- People
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Ptolemy I Soter, Greek (r. 323-285 BCE)
- Title
- Tetradrachm of Ptolemy I as Satrap, Alexandria
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 319-310 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Alexandria (Egypt)
- Period
- Ptolemaic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/191213
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3440, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Middle Eastern Art in the Service of Kings
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 16 g
- Die Axis
- 10
- Denomination
- tetradrachm
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Reverse Inscription: ALEXANDROY; RY
- Provenance
- Joseph Hirsch, 32, 14 Sept. 1912, 593.
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- Svoronos 20; Zervos pl. 3, 15 (this coin); SNG Cop 11
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from the Trustees of the Arthur Stone Dewing Greek Numismatic Foundation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.2733
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obv.: Head of Alexander in elephant skin r.; dotted border.
Rev.: Zeus seated l. on throne, holding eagle r. and scepter l.; to l., thunderbolt; below throne, rho upsilon.
- Exhibition History
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Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/22/2007 - 01/20/2008
Re-View: S422 Ancient & Byzantine Art & Numismatics, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/12/2008 - 06/18/2011
32Q: 3440 Middle East, Harvard Art Museums, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050
- Subjects and Contexts
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Ancient Coins
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