Dorotheos, agoranomos

South Syrian or Phoenician mint

1 Mina

Lead

Cast

Square

8.80 cm

8.70 cm

- cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
558.00	-	-	Auction CNG 2020	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche
Ship / Galley	Relief	RIGHT
Frame	Relief

Auction CNG 2020: Phoenicia, Berytos. Late Hellenistic to Imperial. Cast PB 2 Libra Weight (88×87mm, 558.00 g, 12h). Dorotheos, agoranomos. Galley right; BEP above; A and uncertain symbol flanking stern; ΔΩPOΘЄOY below keel; all within quadrate frame / Blank. CPAI –; Qedar, Gewichte –; Hendin, Ancient –. Rough gray and tan brown patina. Near VF. From the S.M. Collection.
Sawaya 2023: Square lead weight. Dimensions: 72 × 68.40 mm (8) and 88 × 87 mm (9). Mass: 512.50 g (8) and 558 g (9). Preservation: very good. No. 8 is cut twice with a sharp tool. Produced by two different molds. Stern 1992, p. 167-168 (Hebrew version); Stern 1994, p. 312-313, fig. 217 (English version); Kushnir-Stein 1997, p. 90; Spaer 2000; Finkielsztejn 2012, p. 136, no. 16; Gatier 2014, p. 156; Finkielsztejn 2014b, p. 181; Finkielsztejn 2016, p. 31, note 14; Zev Radovan’s Bible Land Pictures website: http://biblelandpictures.com/product/2324-lead-weight/ (visited April 10, 2023); CNG Electronic Auction 114, no. 543 (May 13, 2020); Pondera #12838 (visited April 10, 2023). Denomination: one mina. Obverse: galley right, the prow is raised in volute and armed with a ram, the stern ornamented by an aphlaston, with two rudders, a row of oars on each side, LΒΞΡ | A–ΓΟ (above), ‘year 162, being agoranomos’, ΔΩPOΘЄOY | ΜΑ (below), ‘Dôrotheos, one mina’, all within a simple square frame surrounded by a simple raised square border. Reverse: lattice pattern (8) and blank (9). Agoranomos: Dôrotheos. Findspot: unknown. Acquisition: 8) ex Nahum Shahaf (Haifa). 9) Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut) WHW 2, purchased from the S. Moussaieff Collection during the CNG Electronic Auction 114, no. 543 (May 13, 2020). Photographic credits: 8) Ephraim Stern. 9) Classical Numismatic Group (CNG).

No

Language	Technique	Legend type
Greek	Relief	Authority, Date, Unidentified

̣ΒΞ̣Ρ

Α̣     Β̣Α̣

ΔΩΡΟ̣Θ̣ΕΟΥ

(Ἔ̣τ̣ο̣υ̣ς̣) βξ̣ρ´ | Α̣–Β̣Α̣ | Δωροθέου.
L. 2: Α̣–Β̣Α̣ to be read ἀ̣–γ̣ο̣(ρανομοῦντος)?

GREEK

FROM -151 TO -150

SE 16̣2 (?) = 151/150 BCE (?).

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Hadad Collection	May 13, 2020	WHW 2
Moussaieff Collection	None	None

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
Auction CNG 2020b	None	543	None	None
Sawaya 2023	83–84, 109	9	fig. 9	[attribution to Berytos]

For similar weights, see https://pondera.uclouvain.be/artifact/18943/, https://pondera.uclouvain.be/artifact/18947/ (with relevant bibliography)
Mint: Dor? Berytos?

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