AR Tetradrachma
Silver coin: Obv. head of Athena facing right wearing round earring and Attic helmet (crest mostly missing) adorned with flower and three olive leaves (latter clumsily done), eye in front view; Rev. [inscription], owl facing right with wings folded, olive branch and crescent in field. [07-1-2]
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.825
- Alternate IDs
- 11.825; MFAB_11.825
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Coins
- Period
- Greco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic
- Title
- AR Tetradrachma
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 2.4 cm (1 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Pyramid Temple ([MPT] GMT / room O = entrance corridor 3, S side in pottery jar)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 13.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1907: Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1911: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession date: March 2, 1911)
- Remarks
- Registration number obtained from publication; no registration records available for 1907.