A Case of Competing Attributions
Small Anepigraphic Levantine Silver Coins with a Female Head and an Eagle on a Thunderbolt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21714012 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mati Johananoff (0009-0001-0421-6971, Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Issue | 18 |
| Pages | 31-48 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Notae Numismaticae - Numismatic Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1426-5435 |
| Publisher | National Museum in Krakow (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.52800/ajst.1.18.a2 |
| OpenAlex | W4405581447 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Possible attributions of small anepigraphic silver coin types portraying a female head wearing a flat crown on the obverse and an eagle standing on a thunderbolt (sometimes alongside a club) on the reverse are discussed. A coin belonging to this group was published by Meshorer and Qedar in 1999 and tentatively attributed to Samaria.2 This uncertain attribution is revisited considering new specimens documented as part of the “Corpus of Samarian Coinage” project. The suggested attribution is analyzed against competing attributions to Phoenicia (Tyre), Cyprus (Paphos), Cilicia (uncertain mint) and Manbog/Hierapolis-Bambyke (Syria) considering the relevant numismatic, historical, and archaeological sources. It is concluded that these coin types were most probably minted in Samaria after the Macedonian conquest and should be dated to the reign of Ptolemy I. Since no such coin types are known from controlled archaeological provenances, it is suggested that this likely attribution should, however, remain uncertain. Methodologically, case by case, cross-regional, traditional numismatic analysis, still offers the best available tool for the study of such uncertain attributions
Ancient history · Archaeology · Attribution · CONQUEST · Eagle · Geography · Macedonian · Political science · Ptolemy's table of chords · Reign · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Geology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |