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Plaster Cast: Grave Stele of Ameinokleia1900.11.0002 (1900.11.0002)
133 x 71 x 17 cm (26000 g)
Location: Europe, West: Greece: Athens
Period: Late Classical Period; 4th century BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Ceremonial Artifacts : Funerary Objects
Period: Late Classical Period; 4th century BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Ceremonial Artifacts : Funerary Objects
Plaster Cast: Gravestone Inscription1900.11.0099 (1900.11.0099)
57.7 x 35.2 x 5.4 cm (5025 g)
Location: Europe, West: Greece: Santorini Island, Thira Island: Kamari; Sellada Cemetery
Period: Archaic; 650-550 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Ceremonial Artifacts : Funerary Objects
Description: Plaster cast of the left side of a large flat slab of dark grey volcanic stone, with at least nine, possibly ten names inscribed in total on its four sides in the early Theran alphabet: three words at the middle of the upper face, with two more crowded near the edges at left and bottom; five more are inscribed around each of the three low vertical sides of the slab...
Period: Archaic; 650-550 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Ceremonial Artifacts : Funerary Objects
Description: Plaster cast of the left side of a large flat slab of dark grey volcanic stone, with at least nine, possibly ten names inscribed in total on its four sides in the early Theran alphabet: three words at the middle of the upper face, with two more crowded near the edges at left and bottom; five more are inscribed around each of the three low vertical sides of the slab...
Plaster Cast of Greek Inscription: Dedication at Olympia1900.11.0100 (1900.11.0100)
56 x 18.3 x 3.5 cm (3,649 g)
Location: Europe, West: Greece: Olympia
Period: Classical; 480 - 475 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Documentary Artifacts : Other Documents
Description: The engraving is the stoichedon style of ancient Greek inscriptions in which the letters are in alignment vertically as well as horizontally and are placed at equal intervals along their respective alignment...
Period: Classical; 480 - 475 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Documentary Artifacts : Other Documents
Description: The engraving is the stoichedon style of ancient Greek inscriptions in which the letters are in alignment vertically as well as horizontally and are placed at equal intervals along their respective alignment...
Plaster Cast of Greek Inscription: Dedication at Olympia1900.11.0101 (1900.11.0101)
84.7 x 17.7 x 3 cm (5,877 g)
Location: Europe, West: Greece: Olympia
Period: Classical; 480-475 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Documentary Artifacts : Other Documents
Description: Plaster cast of ca. 2/3 of the left side of a marble inscription on a base for a dedication at Olympia by Praxiteles son of Krinis, signed by the Achaian sculptor Athenodoros and the Argive sculptors Asopodoros, Atotos, and Argeiades son of Ageladas.
Period: Classical; 480-475 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Documentary Artifacts : Other Documents
Description: Plaster cast of ca. 2/3 of the left side of a marble inscription on a base for a dedication at Olympia by Praxiteles son of Krinis, signed by the Achaian sculptor Athenodoros and the Argive sculptors Asopodoros, Atotos, and Argeiades son of Ageladas.
Plaster Cast: Gravestone Inscription1900.11.0102 (1900.11.0102)
68.6 x 30.5 x 6.4 cm (5,062 g)
Location: Europe, West: Greece: Santorini Island, Thira Island: Kamari; Sellada Cemetery
Period: Archaic; 650 - 550 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Ceremonial Artifacts : Funerary Objects
Description: Plaster cast of the right side of a large flat slab of dark grey volcanic stone, with at least nine, possibly ten names inscribed in total on its four sides in the early Theran alphabet: three words at the middle of the upper face, with two more crowded near the edges at left and bottom; five more are inscribed around each of the three low vertical sides of the slab...
Period: Archaic; 650 - 550 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Ceremonial Artifacts : Funerary Objects
Description: Plaster cast of the right side of a large flat slab of dark grey volcanic stone, with at least nine, possibly ten names inscribed in total on its four sides in the early Theran alphabet: three words at the middle of the upper face, with two more crowded near the edges at left and bottom; five more are inscribed around each of the three low vertical sides of the slab...
Plaster Cast: Gravestone Inscription1900.11.0103 (1900.11.0103)
92.5 x 63.5 x 5.7 cm (25,200 g)
Location: Europe, West: Greece: Santorini Island, Thira Island: Kamari; Sellada Cemetery
Period: Archaic; 650 - 550 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Ceremonial Artifacts : Funerary Objects
Description: Plaster cast of the front face of a large flat slab of dark grey volcanic stone, with at least nine, possibly ten names inscribed in total on its four sides in the early Theran alphabet: three words at the middle of the upper face, with two more crowded near the edges at left and bottom; five more are inscribed around each of the three low vertical sides of the slab...
Period: Archaic; 650 - 550 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Ceremonial Artifacts : Funerary Objects
Description: Plaster cast of the front face of a large flat slab of dark grey volcanic stone, with at least nine, possibly ten names inscribed in total on its four sides in the early Theran alphabet: three words at the middle of the upper face, with two more crowded near the edges at left and bottom; five more are inscribed around each of the three low vertical sides of the slab...
Coin: Octadrachm or Tetrashekel, Sidon1900.63.0011 (1900.63.0011)
3.2 x .5 cm (27.49 g)
Location: Asia, West: Lebanon: Sidon
Period: Classical Greece; 370-358 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This is a silver Octadrachm of Tetrashekel from Sidon in Phoenicia, in modern day Lebanon. It was struck early to mid-4th century BCE...
Period: Classical Greece; 370-358 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This is a silver Octadrachm of Tetrashekel from Sidon in Phoenicia, in modern day Lebanon. It was struck early to mid-4th century BCE...
Coin: Tetradrachma, Naxos, Forgery1900.63.0016 (1900.63.0016)
2.65 x .31 cm (8.76 g)
Location: Europe, West: Greece: Cyclades: Naxos City
Period: Classical; 461-413 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is perhaps a forgery of a Tetradrachm from Naxos, the largest island of the Cyclades in the southwestern part of the Aegean Sea...
Period: Classical; 461-413 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is perhaps a forgery of a Tetradrachm from Naxos, the largest island of the Cyclades in the southwestern part of the Aegean Sea...
Coin: Stater, Tarsus1900.63.0495 (1900.63.0495)
2.32 x .32 cm (10.36 g)
Location: Asia, West: Turkey: Tarsus
Period: Satrap Mazaios; 361-334 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a silver Stater from Tarsus on the southeastern coast of Turkey. The coin was struck in the mid to late 4th century BCE...
Period: Satrap Mazaios; 361-334 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a silver Stater from Tarsus on the southeastern coast of Turkey. The coin was struck in the mid to late 4th century BCE...
Coin: Tetradrachm, Maroneia1900.63.0514 (1900.63.0514)
3.12 x .38 cm (16.51 g)
Location: Europe, West: Greece: Thrace: Maroneia
Period: Hellenistic; After 148 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a bronze Tetradrachm from Maroneia in Thrace in northern Greece. It was struck some time after 148 BCE...
Period: Hellenistic; After 148 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a bronze Tetradrachm from Maroneia in Thrace in northern Greece. It was struck some time after 148 BCE...
Coin: Billion Tetradrachm, Alexandria1900.63.0521 (1900.63.0521)
2.5 x .41 cm (12.04 g)
Location: Africa, North: Egypt: Alexandria Governorate: Alexandria
Period: Roman Empire, Hadrian; 127 – 128 CE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Period: Roman Empire, Hadrian; 127 – 128 CE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Coin: Stater, Thebes1900.63.0523 (1900.63.0523)
2.18 x .51 cm (12.02 g)
Location: Europe, West: Greece: Boeotia: Thebes
Period: Classical Greek; 426-387 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a silver Stater from Thebes in the Boeotia region of southern Greece. It was struck in the late 5th to early 4th century BCE...
Period: Classical Greek; 426-387 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a silver Stater from Thebes in the Boeotia region of southern Greece. It was struck in the late 5th to early 4th century BCE...
Coin: AE 19, Erythrae1900.63.0536 (1900.63.0536)
1.92 x .31 cm (6.00 g)
Location: Asia, West: Turkey: Central Coastal Anatolia: Erythrae
Period: Hellenistic; 200-133 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Period: Hellenistic; 200-133 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Coin: Hemidrachm, Miletus1900.63.0542 (1900.63.0542)
.82 x .21 cm (1.18 g)
Location: Asia, West: Turkey: Anatolia: Miletus
Period: Classical; 478 - 450 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a silver Hemidrachm from the ancient city Miletus and the western coast of Turkey...
Period: Classical; 478 - 450 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a silver Hemidrachm from the ancient city Miletus and the western coast of Turkey...
Coin: Syria1900.63.0570 (1900.63.0570)
1.92 x .33 cm (8.04 g)
Location: Asia, West: Syria
Period: Seleucid Kingdom; 312-280 BCE, 246-226 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a bronze of unknown denomination. It is from somewhere in modern day Syria. It was struck in the late 4th to early 3rd century BCE or in the mid-3rd century...
Period: Seleucid Kingdom; 312-280 BCE, 246-226 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a bronze of unknown denomination. It is from somewhere in modern day Syria. It was struck in the late 4th to early 3rd century BCE or in the mid-3rd century...
Coin: Drachm, Athens1900.63.0571 (1900.63.0571)
1.32 x .35 cm (3.08 g)
Location: Europe, West: Greece: Athens
Period: Hellenistic; 406-404 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Period: Hellenistic; 406-404 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Coin: Stater, Lycia1900.63.0573 (1900.63.0573)
1.81 x .39 cm (9.31
g)
Location: Asia, West: Turkey: Lycia
Period: Classical, Hellenistic; Late 6th - Early 5th BC
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Period: Classical, Hellenistic; Late 6th - Early 5th BC
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Coin: Hemiobol or Triobol, Athens1900.63.0574 (1900.63.0574)
1.11 x .22 cm (1.95 g)
Location: Europe, West: Greece: Athens
Period: Classical; 449-413 BC
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a silver Triobol or Hemidrachm from Athens. It was struck in the mid to late 5th century BCE...
Period: Classical; 449-413 BC
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a silver Triobol or Hemidrachm from Athens. It was struck in the mid to late 5th century BCE...
Coin: AE 23, Syracuse1900.63.0617 (1900.63.0617)
2.25 x .4 cm (10.80 g)
Location: Europe, West: Italy: Sicily Region: Syracuse
Period: 278-276 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a bronze of unknown denomination from Syracuse on Sicily. Sicily, as well as Italy, was part of Magna Graecia (Great Greece) that had Greek colonies...
Period: 278-276 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a bronze of unknown denomination from Syracuse on Sicily. Sicily, as well as Italy, was part of Magna Graecia (Great Greece) that had Greek colonies...
Coin: AE 20, Syria1900.63.0618 (1900.63.0618)
2.02 x .23 cm (5.89 g)
Location: Asia, West: Syria
Period: Antiochos VI; 145-142 BC
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Period: Antiochos VI; 145-142 BC
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Coin: Billon Tetradrachm, Alexandria1900.63.0620 (1900.63.0620)
1.92 x .38 cm (8.04 g)
Location: Africa, North: Egypt: Alexandria Governorate: Alexandria
Period: Roman Empire; 276-282 CE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Period: Roman Empire; 276-282 CE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Coin: AE 24, Catania1900.63.0621 (1900.63.0621)
2.49 x .31 cm (9.50 g)
Location: Europe, West: Italy: Sicily Region: Catania
Period: 2nd Century BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Period: 2nd Century BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Coin: AE 17, Pergamum1900.63.0629 (1900.63.0629)
1.7 x .4 cm (7.20 g)
Location: Asia, West: Turkey: Anatolia: Pergamum
Period: Hellenistic Greece; 200-133 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a bronze of unknown denomination from Pergamum in modern day Turkey. It was struck during the 2nd century BCE...
Period: Hellenistic Greece; 200-133 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a bronze of unknown denomination from Pergamum in modern day Turkey. It was struck during the 2nd century BCE...
Coin: AE 22, Reggio1900.63.0631 (1900.63.0631)
2.27 x .21 cm (5.42 g)
Location: Europe, West: Italy: Calabria Region: Reggio
Period: 270-03 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a bronze of unknown denomination from Rhegion, modern day Reggio in the Calabria region of Italy...
Period: 270-03 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Description: This Greek coin is a bronze of unknown denomination from Rhegion, modern day Reggio in the Calabria region of Italy...
Coin: Tetradrachm, Egypt1900.63.0645 (1900.63.0645)
2.49 x .41 cm (6.09 g)
Location: Africa, North: Egypt
Period: Ptolemaic Empire; 52-51 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
Period: Ptolemaic Empire; 52-51 BCE
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Exchange Media
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