Bronze Coin (Mint: Hierapolis)
- Title:
- Bronze Coin (Mint: Hierapolis)
- Collection:
- Cornell Coin Collection
- Site:
- Cappadocia, Turkey
- Location:
- Cappadocia, Turkey
- Country:
- Turkey
- ID Number:
- CNC_0720
- Negative Number:
- 720
- File Name:
- CNC_0720.tif
- Mint:
- Hierapolis (?)
- Obverse:
- Bearded head, laureate (Antiochus depicted as Zeus)
border of dots
worn - Reverse:
- [ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΗ ΤΗΣ ΜΗΤ] ΡΟΠΟΛ[ΕΩΕ] : Zeus, naked to waist, seated left, on throne
rest on scepter with left arm
in right hand, holds Nike about to crown him with wreath
Zeus wearing himation
plain exergue line
border worn - Work Type:
- coins (money)
money - Materials/Techniques:
- bronze (metal)
- Subject:
- Coins, Ancient
- Measurement:
- 20 mm (millimeters, diameter)
- Notes:
- Unidentified Seleucid king -- possibly Antiochus IV?
Items in the Cornell Coins Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes
metadata may not be complete in all cases. - Bibliography:
- BMC - Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria, Vol. 20, p. 153, #12 and p. 155, #32-34
also Plate 18, #9 and #11, and Plate 19, #1 - Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Coins Collection (in part Greek and Roman Coin Collection, #8464, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections) is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of the age of the underlying coins, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2011 from original materials, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.