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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1980.85.257
Title
Coin of Berytos
Classification
Coins
Work Type
coin
Date
2nd century BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Berytos (Phoenicia)
Period
Hellenistic period
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/175383

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Metal
AE
Technique
Struck
Dimensions
5.22 g
Die Axis
2

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
BMC 1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of H. Bartlett Wells, Class of 1929
Accession Year
1980
Object Number
1980.85.257
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Obv.: Bust of Tyche r., wearing turreted crown, neck draped, palm over shoulder, border of dots.
Rev.: Baal-Berit, wearing low kalathos, himation about lower part of body and over l. shoulder, standing l. in car drawn by four hippocamps (on the nearest of which rides a small genius), he holds in r. phiale, in l. trident upright. Around on l. downwards Phoenician inscr. illegible, in field r. monogram, border of dots.

Verification Level

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