- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1.1965.2023
- Title
- Stater of Gortyna, Crete
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 300 - 280/70 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Crete, Gortynai (Crete)
- Period
- Hellenistic period, Early
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/170542
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3400, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Greece in Black and Orange
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 11.47 g
- Die Axis
- 4
- Denomination
- stater
- Provenance
- J. Schulman 231, 6 March 1958 lot 3683
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- Le Rider p. 78 no.64; Svoronos 72
- 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
- 1.1965.2023
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obverse: Tree goddess (Europa) seated in a tree, naked to the waist, lifting up her garment over her shoulder with her r. hand; in front of her eagle with open wings hovering.
Reverse: Bull standing to r. with head turned back.
- Exhibition History
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32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050
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