Unidentified

South Syrian or Phoenician mint

1/4 Mina

Lead

Cast

Square

16.51 cm (6.5 inch)

6.50 cm

- cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
188.19	-	-	Auction Leu 2024	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche
Ear of wheat	Relief
Lattice pattern	Relief

Auction Leu 2024: LEVANTINE REGION. Uncertain, 1st century BC. Weight of 1 Tetarton (Lead, 62 x 65 mm, 188.19 g), year 27 of an unknown era. ETOYΣ ZK / MK / AΓO-PANO/MON-TOΣ / ...OY / TETAPTON in six lines; in the center, grain ear. Rev. Latticework design. Pondera -. Unpublished. Minor scuffs on the obverse, otherwise, very fine.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type
Greek	Relief	Authority, Date, Denomination

Ἔτους ζι´ (or ζκ´?) | Μ< (?) | ἀγο–ρανο|μοῦ–τος | .Ω–...ΟΥ | τέταρτον.
L. 1–2: Ἔτους ζ|μρ´ (?)

GREEK

FROM -250 TO -1

Ἔτους ζ|μρ´ (S.E. 147 = 166/5 BCE)? or rather Ἔτους ζι´ (or ζκ´?) = Year 17 or 27 of an unidentified civic era?

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Antiquities Trade	Sept. 8, 2024	None

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
Auction Leu 2024d	None	1632	None	None

The ear of wheat is attested in Scythopolis, Berytos or Laodicea. Compare e.g. with https://pondera.uclouvain.be/artifact/14860/
Auction Leu 2024: This weight is dated to the 27th year of an unknown, likely local era. It probably originates from the 1st century BC, when many cities in the Levant abandoned the Seleukid era and established their own eras. Weights with grain ears have so far been known from Laodikeia, Berytos, and Skythopolis. Whether our specimen also comes from one of these cities or another polis remains uncertain due to the absence of an ethnic.

https://leunumismatik.com/en/lot/54/1632