Dorotheos, agoranomos

South Syrian or Phoenician mint

1 Mina

Lead

Cast

Square

6.84 cm

7.20 cm

- cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
512.50	-	-	Spaer 2000	No	No	Yes
513.00	-	-	Stern 1994	No	No	No

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche
Ship / Galley	Relief	RIGHT
Frame	Relief
Lattice pattern	Relief

Sawaya 2023: Square lead weight. Dimensions: 72 × 68.40 mm (8) and 88 × 87 mm (9). Mass: 512.50 g (8) and 558 g (9). Preservation: very good. No. 8 is cut twice with a sharp tool. Produced by two different molds. Stern 1992, p. 167-168 (Hebrew version); Stern 1994, p. 312-313, fig. 217 (English version); Kushnir-Stein 1997, p. 90; Spaer 2000; Finkielsztejn 2012, p. 136, no. 16; Gatier 2014, p. 156; Finkielsztejn 2014b, p. 181; Finkielsztejn 2016, p. 31, note 14; Zev Radovan’s Bible Land Pictures website: http://biblelandpictures.com/product/2324-lead-weight/ (visited April 10, 2023); CNG Electronic Auction 114, no. 543 (May 13, 2020); Pondera #12838 (visited April 10, 2023). Denomination: one mina. Obverse: galley right, the prow is raised in volute and armed with a ram, the stern ornamented by an aphlaston, with two rudders, a row of oars on each side, LΒΞΡ | A–ΓΟ (above), ‘year 162, being agoranomos’, ΔΩPOΘЄOY | ΜΑ (below), ‘Dôrotheos, one mina’, all within a simple square frame surrounded by a simple raised square border. Reverse: lattice pattern (8) and blank (9). Agoranomos: Dôrotheos. Findspot: unknown. Acquisition: 8) ex Nahum Shahaf (Haifa). 9) Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut) WHW 2, purchased from the S. Moussaieff Collection during the CNG Electronic Auction 114, no. 543 (May 13, 2020). Photographic credits: 8) Ephraim Stern. 9) Classical Numismatic Group (CNG).

No

Language	Technique	Legend type
Greek	Relief	Authority, Date, Unidentified

ΒΞΡ

Α̣     Β̣Α̣

ΔΩΡΟΘΕΟΥ

(Ἔτους) βξρ´ | Α̣–Β̣Α̣ | Δωροθέου.
L. 2: Α̣–Β̣Α̣ to be read ἀ̣–γ̣ο̣(ρανομοῦντος)?

GREEK

FROM -151 TO -150

SE 16̣2 (?) = 151/150 BCE (?).

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Shahaf Collection	Dec. 31, 1989	None
Unidentified Private Collections	None	None

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
Stern 1994	312–313	None	fig.	(non vidi) [attribution to Dor]
Kushnir-Stein 1997	90	None	None	None
Spaer 2000	17–21	None	figs.	None
Finkielsztejn 2012	136	16	None	None
Galili et al. 2016	31, n. 14	None	None	None
Sawaya 2023	83–84, 109	8	fig. 8	[attribution to Berytos]

For similar weights, see https://pondera.uclouvain.be/artifact/12838/, https://pondera.uclouvain.be/artifact/18943/
Mint: Dor? Berytos?