Heraclea ad Latmum

5 Minas

Lead

Cast

Square

17.00 cm

11.60 cm

- cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
2515.00	-	-	Tekin 2016	No	No	No
2520.00	-	-	Tekin 2024	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche
Club	Relief
Cornucopia	Relief

Tekin 2024: Pentemnaion, Pb 2520 g, 116x170 mm. Inv. no. 550. Lead weight, square in form. Pierced on bottom left corner. On the top, club and cornucopia; to right, ΗΡΑ(κλέων); H and Ρ are ligatured. Although the iconographic attributes of Heracles are the lion skin and the club, he sometimes is seen with cornucopia. According to the legend, the cornucopia was created when Heracles wrestled with the river god Acheloos and wrenched off one of his horns. So, Heracles sometimes is represented carrying cornucopia in Greek and Roman art. Current weight is a pentemnaion or 5-mna (mna of 504 g). The bottom is blank.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type
Greek	Relief	Mint

← Ἡρα(κλέων).

GREEK

FROM -400 TO -100

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Eskinazi Collection	None	550

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
Tekin 2016a	124–125, 210	1	pl. 36, fig. 280a–b	None
Tekin 2024a	61	72	fig. 72	None

Tekin 2016: five-mna unit (mna of 503 g) or, less probably, a unit of six mnas (mna of 419 g).