1.1965.2024: Stater of Gortyn, Crete
CoinsOn the side of the coin on the left is a woman seated in a tree on a throne facing right, head slightly turned, naked from the waist up, right hand raised, with tree limbs and foliage radiating out from behind; to the left of the throne, the Greek characters: A P I. The other side of the coin depicts a bull standing facing right, head turned facing back; above, barely legible Greek characters.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.2024
- Title
- Stater of Gortyn, Crete
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 322 - 280/70 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Crete, Gortynai (Crete)
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/170543
Location
- Location
-
Level 3, Room 3400, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Greece in Black and Orange
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 11.43 g
- Die Axis
- 12
- Denomination
- stater
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- Obverse Inscription: left of throne: API
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Phaistos reagion hoard 1953 (IGCH 152); M&M 19, 1959, lot 446
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Le Rider p.28 no. 156 (this coin) and p. 146ff.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from the Trustees of the Arthur Stone Dewing Greek Numismatic Foundation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.2024
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Obverse: Europa seated in a tree on a throne three quarter r., naked to the waist, raising her garment.
Reverse: Bull standing to r. with head looking back.
Publication History
- [Reproduction Only], Persephone, (Fall 2006)., p. 48.
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050
Subjects and Contexts
- Ancient Coins
Verification Level
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