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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1982.100.48
People
Trajan, Roman (r. 98-117 CE)
Title
Coin of Seleucia Pieria under Trajan
Classification
Coins
Work Type
coin
Date
98-117 CE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Seleukeia Pieria (Syria)
Period
Roman Imperial period, Middle
Culture
Roman Provincial
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/170792

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Metal
AE
Technique
Struck
Dimensions
10.1 g
Die Axis
12
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Obverse Inscription: AVTOKPKAICNEP TPAIANOCAPIC TCEBΓEPMΔAK
  • Reverse Inscription: CEΛEYKEωN ΠEIEPIAC, in field A (ΠIEPIAC for ΠEIE PIAC)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
"a Glamis Castle coin"

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
BMC 36

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of H. Bartlett Wells, Class of 1929
Accession Year
1982
Object Number
1982.100.48
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Obv.: Bust of Trajan, r., laureate, border of dots.
Rev.: Sacred stone of Zeus Kasios (with fillet attached) within tetrastyle shrine consisting of four pillars supporting a pyramidal roof surmounted by an eagle, beneath type ZEYC KACIOC, bead and reel border.

Verification Level

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