Alexandria Troas

2 Minas

Lead

Cast

Square

9.90 cm

9.90 cm

1.00 cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
825.00	-	-	Seyrig archives (HS 331)	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche
Lyre / Cithara	Relief
Bow	Relief

Deonna 1938: Plaquette carrée. Cithare, arc; sur les deux côtés verticaux, la légende ΑΛΕΞΑΝ en bas les lettres ΜΜ ou ΜΜΑ [ligature]. Ce poids, comme l'indique la légende, provient d'Alexandrie en Troade, dont les monnaies ont comme emblèmes la cithare et Apollon tenant l'arc. On connaît aussi des poids de cette ville avec le cheval paissant, autre emblème monétaire. Les lettres sont l'indication de MNA, mine.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type
Greek	Relief	Denomination, Mint

Ἀ–λ|ε–ξ|α–ν(δρέων) | ΜΜ.

GREEK

FROM -301 TO -12

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Archaeological Museum of Delos	None	B 608–7821

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
Deonna 1938	147–148	B 608–7821	pl. 54/423	(attribution to Alexandria Troas)
Seyrig (archives)	None	HS 331	None	None
Killen 2017a	183	Del b 1	pl. 10/10	(attribution to Delos)

Simone Killen: Alexandreia Troas normally has a grazing horse on its weights. The city could have a second parasemon, that´s possible. But the form of the ethnicon ΑΛΕΞΑΝ is only attested on the very first coin series of this city, but there is no cithara on the coins. I thought that the weight found on Delos is from Delos: the cithara could belong to Apollo as main deity of this island. But I never checked if we have any agoranomos or comparable magistrate called Alexandros at Delos.
Oğuz Tekin (2016a, p. 123) attributes the weight #13231 to Alabanda.
For similar weights, see: https://pondera.uclouvain.be/artifact/11465/, https://pondera.uclouvain.be/artifact/13231/