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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 a man on a four-horse drawn vehicle facing left, holding a stick in his left hand, and the reins of the horses in his right. Above flies a winged woman, holding a wreath to crown the man. Below, a line under the horses, the Greek characters: H I M E P A I O N. The other side of the coin depicts a woman standing facing left, right arm outstretched pouring from a bowl onto an altar below, with swastika above. To the right, a small man baths from a lion head shaped fountain, with grain of wheat above.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.92
Title
Tetradrachm from Himera, Sicily
Classification
Coins
Work Type
coin
Date
440 BCE-425 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Himera (Sicily)
Period
Classical period, High
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/5553

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3200, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Classical Sculpture
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Metal
AR
Technique
Struck
Dimensions
17.1 g
Die Axis
3
Denomination
tetradrachm

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bought from Leu Numismatics in 2005, ex Claude Burgan, 30 June 1987 lot. 259

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
CAB 20-21 and SNR 88 (2009) pp.54-56 fig, 3

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.92
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Obv.: Horse quadriga at the walk to r.; in exergue HIMEPAION
Rev.: Himera standing to left, holding a phiale over an altar. To r. Silenus under fountain; in field left a swastika; in field right grain of wheat.

Publication History

  • Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2004-2005 (Cambridge, MA, 2005), p. 13.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3200 West Arcade, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050

Verification Level

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