Tetradrachm or Shekel
Greek
Tyre
Phoenicia
Asia Minor
Middle East
after 126 BCE
Silver
Overall: 1 3/16 in. (30 mm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glenn Babbitt
174.30.30173
Geography
Place Made: Eastern Mediterranean, Syria, West Asia, Asia
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Coin
Research Area
Numismatics: Greek and Roman
Not on view
Inscriptions
Obverse: Head of Melquarth right Reverse: [inscription] eagle standing left palm over shoulder; in field BA and [inscription]
Exhibition History
The Age of the Marvelous, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 21-November 24, 1991; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 25-March 22, 1992; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, May 24-August 25, 1992; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 6, 1992-January 3, 1993, naturalia no. n398.
Provenance
Glenn Babbitt; given to present collection, 1974.
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