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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 the head of a woman facing left, wearing an ornate flat-topped crown, curly tendrils of hair falling down the back of her neck, wearing a three-pendant earing, and a necklace. The other side of the coin depicts a labyrinth consisting of multiple lines within a square; to the left, an arrowhead; to the right, a thunderbolt; below, barely legible Greek characters.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.1965.1986
Title
Stater of Knossos
Classification
Coins
Work Type
coin
Date
300 - 270 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Crete, Knossos (Crete)
Period
Hellenistic period
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/170590

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 g
Die Axis
3
Denomination
stater

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Acuired from Zoumboulakis 1958

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Le Rider p.31, 305; Svoronos 67

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
1.1965.1986
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Obverse: Head of Hera wearing stephane to l.
Reverse: Labyrinth

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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