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Stater of Tarsos with seated Baaltars, struck under Mazaios
Greek
Late Classical Period
361–333 B.C.
Mint: Cilicia (Satrapy), Tarsos
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 23 mm. Weight: 10.48 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1153
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 2136.
DescriptionObverse: Baaltars seated to left on throne without back; in extended and lowered right hand, stem with bunch of grapes and vine tendrils downwards and ear of corn upwards; left hand resting on lotus-tipped scepter; upper body nude, himation over lower body.
Below throne, uncertain symbol.
Inscription in Aramaic.
Plain border.
Reverse: Lion standing left on stag to left, biting stag's shoulder; lion's head in profile, his right hindleg on right hindleg of stag, who is kicking; stag kneeling left on left foreleg.
Inscription in Aramaic.
Dotted square border; square incuse. (test cut below).
Ruler: Mazaios
Below throne, uncertain symbol.
Inscription in Aramaic.
Plain border.
Reverse: Lion standing left on stag to left, biting stag's shoulder; lion's head in profile, his right hindleg on right hindleg of stag, who is kicking; stag kneeling left on left foreleg.
Inscription in Aramaic.
Dotted square border; square incuse. (test cut below).
Ruler: Mazaios
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren; purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, September, 1904
Not listed as Greenwell by Regling.
Not listed as Greenwell by Regling.