- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1972.224
- Title
- Dekadrachm of Syracuse signed by Kimon
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 405 - 400 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Syracuse (Sicily)
- Period
- Classical period, High
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/195894
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 43.05 g
- Die Axis
- 2
- Denomination
- decadrachm
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Obverse Inscription: ΑΘΛΑ in exergue
- Reverse Inscription: ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ above to r.
- Provenance
- Frederick M. Watkins, New Haven, CT (by 1972), bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1972.
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- Jongkees 12
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Frederick M. Watkins
- Accession Year
- 1972
- Object Number
- 1972.224
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obverse: Galloping quadriga l., above small Nike crowning charioteer; in exergue panoply (cuirass in the center planked by greaves, a shield lying on the ground l and a Phrygian helmet r.) resting on steps; below ΑΘΛΑ.
Reverse: Head of Arethousa l. surrounded by dolphins.
- Publication History
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The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973)
- Exhibition History
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The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/31/1973 - 03/14/1973
Objects for a Kunstkammer: Early European Collecting, 1550-1700, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 12/10/2005 - 11/19/2006
32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/07/2016 - 05/08/2016
- Subjects and Contexts
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Ancient Coins
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