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Both sides of an irregularly shaped silver-gray coin with relief decoration on each side.　

On 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
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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
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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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