
Tetradrachm
Object Number: | 29-126-469 |
Current Location: |
Greece Gallery Currently On Display |
Culture: | Greek |
Provenience: | Mediterranean |
Manufacture Location: | Babylonia |
Maker: | Alexander the Great |
Period: | Classical Greek Period Hellenistic Period |
Date Made: | c. 324 BC |
Early Date: | -374 |
Late Date: | -274 |
Section: | Mediterranean |
Materials: | Silver |
Iconography: | Heracles Zeus |
Outside Diameter: | 2.5 cm |
Credit Line: | Received from various sources, pre-1929 |
Description
Herakles head r. in lion's scalp. Zues enthroned to l.; in l. field, bunch of grapes
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Ancient Greek World (08 May 1994) | View Objects in Exhibition | |
Classical Gallery: Greece (1975 - 1989) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
[Book] Stolyarik, Yelena, and Romano, Irene B., and Romano, David G., and DeVries, Keith R., and White, Donald J. 1995. The Ancient Greek World:The Rodney S. Young Gallery.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 17 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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