2016.22: Stater of Tarentum (Calabria)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2016.22
- Title
- Stater of Tarentum (Calabria)
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- c. 320 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Tarentum-Taras (Calabria)
- Period
- Classical period, Late
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/355626
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gold
- Metal
- AV
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- weight: 8.54 g
- Die Axis
- 5
- Denomination
- stater
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Obverse Inscription: Τ[ΑΡΑΣ]
- Reverse Inscription: [ΤΑΡΑΝΤΙΝΩ]Ν
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., 197th Buy or Bid Sale, lot 2; Classical Numismatic Group, Inc., Triton XIX, 3-4, January 6. 2016, lot 2004, From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Harlan Berk, April 2002. Ex Athos D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 89; M. P. Vlasto Collection, no. 1; Robert Jameson Collection, 137; G. Nervegna Collection (Sambon-Canessa, 18 November 1907), lot 241.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- F.-B., G 5j (this coin)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, J.P. Engelcke Coin Purchase Fund
- Accession Year
- 2016
- Object Number
- 2016.22
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Obverse: Head of Persephone right, wearing a stephane and a veil on the back of her head, earrings and a pearl necklace. To r. letter E, a small dolphin under her chins and rests of the legend in field r. downwards.
Reverse: Poseidon seated on a diphros (stool), wearing a himation around his lower body, holding a trident in his left hand, the right hand on his knee. He is leaning forward towards a small boy, his son Taras, naked, who is standing in front of him and raising his hands up to him in a gesture of supplication. Letter K under stool and around the border r. upwards.
Verification Level
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