Menexenos, agoranomos (Corinth)

Corinth

1 Mina

Copper alloy (bronze or brass)

Cast

Square

6.70 cm

7.10 cm

1.70 cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
414.50	-	-	Kroll 2012	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche
Bull / Cow / Calf	Relief	FACING			Head

Kroll 2012: A second Greek weight that is ornamented with a bold frontal head of a bull is the elegant and beautifully preserved bronze mina belonging to the Warren Collection (inv. 1923.14) in the Bowdoin College Art Museum, Brunswick, Maine (fig. 3). Provenience unknown. Around the bull’s head along the four edges of the plinth face, in lightly serifed, Early Hellenistic lettering of the later 4th to the mid 3rd centuries 8, is inscribed δαμόσια ἀγορανομέοντ-ος Μενεξέ-νου, “Public (mina), Superintendent of the Market being Menexenos”. The weight (6.7 x 7.1 cm, 1.7 cm. thick, 1.0 thickness of the plinth alone) has a mass of 414.5 g. As indicated by its smooth gray-green patina, it has not been subject to heavy chemical cleaning.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type
Greek	Incised	Authority, Mint

Δαμόσια ἀγορ–ανομέοντ–ος Μενεξέ–νου.

GREEK

FROM -350 TO -250

Kroll 2012: Late 4th - earlier 3rd c. BC.

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Bowdoin College Art Museum	None	1923.14
Warren Collection	None	None

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
Guarducci 1967–1969	II, 478–479	None	fig. 122, n°5	(non vidi)
Kroll 2012	113	None	fig. 3	None
Tekin 2016a	48–49	None	pl. 4, fig. 25	None