1994.171: Tetradrachm of Bar Kochba, Year 2
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1994.171
- People
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Bar Kochba
- Title
- Tetradrachm of Bar Kochba, Year 2
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 133-134 CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Jerusalem (Palestine)
- Period
- Roman Imperial period, Middle
- Culture
- Jewish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/196147
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 15.06 g
- Technical Details
-
Technical Observations: The coin is overstruck
- Die Axis
- 12
- Denomination
- tetradrachm
- Date on Object
- Year 2
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: obverse: See file for inscriptions on both sides of the coin.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Mildenberg nos. 6 ff
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Jonathan H. Kagan in memory of Robert A. Kagan
- Accession Year
- 1994
- Object Number
- 1994.171
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Obverse: Tetrastyle facade of the Temple with fluted columns. The architrave is rendered by two lines and the podium by a thick exergual line. In the center the Ark of the Covenant in chest form. Overstruck.
Reverse: lulav and etrog behind palm.
Verification Level
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