bgr_349654 - SICILY - SYRACUSE Litra
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Litra
Date: c. 317-310 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syracuse, Sicile
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 3,18 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés Beau portrait à l’usure superficielle. Revers de style fin. Belle patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête de Koré (Perséphone) à gauche, couronné avec des épis ; derrière la tête, un plectron (grattoir) ; grènetis circulaire.
Obverse legend : SURAKOSION
Obverse translation : (de Syracuse).
Reverse
Reverse description : Taureau chargeant à gauche; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse legend : (HR)
Commentary
Poids léger. Le revers est très proche de certains grands bronzes de Marseille au taureau chargeant. Au droit le plectron était un petit grattoir (mediator) réalisé à partir d’un coquillage qui servait à gratter ou à pincer les cordes de la lyre.
Lightweight. The reverse is very similar to some large bronzes from Marseille with a charging bull. On the obverse, the plectron was a small scraper (mediator) made from a shell that was used to scrape or pluck the strings of the lyre.
Lightweight. The reverse is very similar to some large bronzes from Marseille with a charging bull. On the obverse, the plectron was a small scraper (mediator) made from a shell that was used to scrape or pluck the strings of the lyre.
Historical background
SICILY - SYRACUSE
(317-289 BC)
Agathokles, tyranus of Syracuse
Agathokles had seized power in Syracuse in 317 BC and assumed the title of king in 305 BC. In 310 the tyrant invaded North Africa and attacked Carthage, but he was defeated in 307 and must retire to Sicily. Peace, signed the following year with the hereditary enemy, consecrates the hegemony of Agathokles over all Sicily.
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