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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 man standing in a four-horse drawn vehicle facing right, wearing flowing clothing, holding the reins in each hand, with a thick line and a border of dots surround the outside of the coin. The other side of the coin depicts the head of a woman facing left, hair curling back from forehead with dotted parallel lines, within circle sunk at center of a swastika developed from indented squares.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.1965.686
Title
Tetradrachm of Syracuse
Classification
Coins
Work Type
coin
Date
510 - 500 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Syracuse (Sicily)
Period
Archaic period
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/188562

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
16.78 g
Die Axis
3
Denomination
tetradrachm

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robinson Coll.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Boehringer. 5,2 (this coin)

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
1.1965.686
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Obv.: quadriga r. driven by male charioteer in long chiton; in exergue, thick line; border of dots.
Rev.: Small head of Arethusa to l. in the center of an incuse square.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050

Verification Level

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