Corinth

1/5 Mina

Copper alloy (bronze or brass)

Cast

Disc or similar (ellipse, etc.)

4.00 cm

4.00 cm

1.30 cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
82.34	-	April 1, 2010	Kroll 2012	No	No	Yes
82.52	-	-	Hultsch 1905	No	No	No

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

Kroll 2012: The earliest surviving Corinthian market weight is the bronze weight in the collection of the Numismatic Museum of Athens illustrated in figs. 1 and 2. It is a one-fifth of a mina cast in the form of a thick disk with the head of a bull in raised relief. Around the bull’s head is inscribed in archaic Corinthian letters πενπ-ταῖ-ον. The underside is inscribed Ϙορίνθον in carefully spaced letters that encircle a slightly larger zeta in the middle. Excellently preserved, with a hard, dark green patina, the weight measures 4.0 cm in diameter and 1.3 cm in thickness (0.7 cm thickness of the disk alone). The original publication recorded its mass as 82.52 g. Reweighing in April 2010 gave a marginally lighter 82.34 g, which is only to be expected from handling in the interim. Upon acquiring the weight for the Athens collection, the director, J. N. Svoronos apparently sent a plaster cast of it to Friedrich Hultsch, who promptly published the weight in 1905 in a two-page note with photos of the cast (fig. 2). Either because the weight had been insufficiently cleaned or because the cast was made from a weak impression, the cast of the underside did not show the initial qoppa of the ethnic, and suggested that the letter in the center was an iota.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type
Greek	Incised	Denomination, Mint

Πενπ–ταῖ–ον || Ϙορίνθον

GREEK

FROM -500 TO -450

Kroll 2012: Earlier 5th c. BC.

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Numismatic Museum (Athens)	None	None

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
Hultsch 1905	5–6	None	fig.	(non vidi)
Davidson 1952	204	None	pl. 147c	None
Kroll 2012	111–112	None	fig. 1–2	None
Tekin 2016a	48–49	None	pl. 4, fig. 24a–b	None