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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 right, wearing a necklace, five pendant earring, with hair tied up and held in place with wreath made from grain stalks. The other side of the coin depicts a man naked except for a hat and cloak moving to the left, a staff with two snakes in his right hand, a small infant in his left. The infant's right arm is placed on the man's shoulder, both heads are turned to face each other. Along the right side of the coin, the Greek characters: ΦΕΝΕΩΝ.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1972.151
Title
Stater of Pheneos
Classification
Coins
Work Type
coin
Date
370-350 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Arkadia, Pheneos (Arkadia)
Period
Classical period, Late
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/194020

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
11.71 g
Die Axis
9
Denomination
stater
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Reverse Inscription: ΦΕΝΕΩΝ

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
cf. BCD Pelop 1617

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Frederick M. Watkins
Accession Year
1972
Object Number
1972.151
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Obverse: Female head to r., wearing a wreath of grain stalks Maia (Demeter or possibly Kallisto, Arkas's mother).

Reverse: Hermes, wearing petasos on his head, naked but for a chlamys over his shoulders, striding l. holding kerykeion in r. hand and infant Arkas in l.

Publication History

  • The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973)

Exhibition History

  • The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/31/1973 - 03/14/1973
  • 32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050

Subjects and Contexts

  • Ancient Coins

Verification Level

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