- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2005.115.57
- People
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Ptolemy III Euergetes, Greek (r. 246-221 BCE)
- Title
- Coin of Ptolemy III, Egypt
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 246 - 221 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Alexandria (Egypt)
- Period
- Ptolemaic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/21162
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Bronze
- Metal
- AE
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 48.37 g
- Die Axis
- 11
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Reverse Inscription: PTOLEMAIOU BASILEOS
- Provenance
- Collection of Margarete Bieber: bought 1974 from C.L. Deland
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- Svoronos 974
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Celia and Walter Gilbert, Claude-Claire Grenier, and the Marian H. Phinney Fund
- Accession Year
- 2005
- Object Number
- 2005.115.57
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obv.: Bearded head of Zeus Ammon to r.
Rev.: Eagle standing on thunderbolt l. looking back, cornucopia on l. shoulder; dotted border. E between the eagle's legs.
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