Marathos

50 Sheqels

Lead

Cast

Square

7.50 cm

7.50 cm

- cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
467.00	-	-	Auction Leu 2021	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche
Caduceus	Relief

Auction Leu 2021: Phoenicia. Marathos, 3rd-1st centuries BC. Weight of 50 Shekels (Lead, 75x75 mm, 467.00 g). City monogram composed of 'mrt' above '20+20+10' (all in Phoenician); to left, kerykeion. Rev. Blank. Pondera 12899 var. (no kerykeion). Good very fine.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type
Phoenician	Relief	Denomination, Mint

{Monogram of Marathos: U+1090C+10913+10915}

{Phoenician number 40, U+10918, U+10918}{Phoenician number 10, U+10917}

mrt | 50. — “Marathus, 50 (Sheqels).”

MRT

NEAR EASTERN , GREEK

FROM -300 TO -1

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Antiquities Trade	Dec. 20, 2021	None

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
Auction Leu 2021d	None	3958	None	None

Auction Leu 2021: The Phoenician city of Marathos lay on the Levantine mainland in close proximity to its rival, the island polis of Arados. Periods of independence alternated with domination by its powerful neighbor, which considered Marathos part of its mainland peraia. The Aradians eventually destroyed Marathos in the late 2nd or early 1st century BC, as reported by Strabo: '[...] Marathus, the latter an ancient city of the Phoenicians, now in ruins. Aradians divided up this country among themselves [...]' (Strab. XVI, 753). Rebuilt on a smaller scale sometime thereafter, the settlement never fully recovered and was eventually abandoned in the late 1st or early 2nd century AD.

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