Zuz, Bar Kokhba revolt

Inscriptions

Obverse: Bunch of grapes, hanging from a branch, attached to a 5-lobed leaf on the left and an open tendril on the right. Legend: (Simon) counterclockwise from ten o’clock. Border of dots. Reverse: Oenichoe (jug), handle facing left, standing upright, with palm branch to the right. Legend: (Year Bet of the freedom of Israel Second Year of the freedom of Israel) counterclockwise from five o’clock.

Course History

CLST 18, HIST 94.6, History of the Roman Empire, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2012

Classics 11.19, History 94.16, Before Billboards and Twitters: Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Fall 2024

Exhibition History

Investigations into the Ancient Mediterranean, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Yale University Collection-Sharing Initiative, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 5-June 24, 2012.

Publication History

IMPERIUM ROMANUM IN NUMMIS, The Roman Empire in and on Its Coinage, a booklet with entries created by Dartmouth students and Professor Roberta Stewart, Spring 2012, no. 20, Suiwen Liang, Class of 2013 and Ranya Brooks, Class of 2013.

Provenance

De Palma collection, date unknown; Dr. Joseph DeGregorio, Glen Ridge, New Jersey; given to present collection, 2011.

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