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Start Over Media available legacy documentation Donor Alfred Emerson Loans S2015-2016 #3: Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) (May 5, 2016–August 2, 2016)

1. Amphora

Museum number:
8-124
Culture or time period:
Classical Rome and German
Object class:
Amphorae (storage vessels)
Dimensions:
height 10.5 centimeters and width 9 centimeters
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Collection date:
September 15, 1900

2. Coin: æ

Museum number:
8-4983
Culture or time period:
Greek Classical Period (480–323 BC)
Object class:
Athena and Coins (money)
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
345-317 BC
Dimensions:
linear 28.4 millimeters and weight 31.51 grams
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Syracuse (ancient colony)
Collection date:
unknown
Person depicted:
Athena (Greek deity)

3. Coin: ar didrachm

Museum number:
8-4320
Culture or time period:
Greek Classical Period (480–323 BC)
Object class:
Coins (money) and Didrachms
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
400-333 BC
Dimensions:
linear 21 millimeters and weight 6.17 grams
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Rhodes, Dodecanese islands, Aegean Islands
Person depicted:
Helios (Greek deity)

4. Coin: ar hemiobol

Museum number:
8-4445
Culture or time period:
Greek Archaic Period (700–480 BC) and Greek Classical Period (480–323 BC)
Object class:
Athena, Coins (money), and Hemiobols
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
527-430 BC
Dimensions:
weight 0.38 grams, linear 5 millimeters, and thickness 1 millimeters
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Athens, Attica, Greece
Collection date:
December 10-12, 1900
Person depicted:
Athena (Greek deity)

5. Coin: ar stater

Museum number:
8-4308
Culture or time period:
Greek Archaic Period (700–480 BC)
Object class:
Coins (money) and Staters
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
550-470 BC
Dimensions:
linear 25 millimeters and weight 8.83 grams
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Metapontum (historic place), Magna Graecia
Collection date:
unknown

6. Coin: ar stater

Museum number:
8-4446
Culture or time period:
Greek Classical Period (480–323 BC)
Object class:
Coins (money) and Staters
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
ca. 550-456 BC
Dimensions:
linear 11 millimeters and weight 12.32 grams
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
France
Collection date:
1900

7. Coin: ar tetradrachm

Museum number:
8-4427
Culture or time period:
Greek Hellenistic Period (323–30 BC) and Seleucid (312 BC to 63 BC)
Object class:
Coins (money) and Tetradrachms
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
226-223 BC
Dimensions:
linear 28 millimeters and weight 17.01 grams
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Antioch on the Orontes (ancient city), ancient Syria
Collection date:
unknown
Person depicted:
Apollo (Greek and Roman diety) and Seleucus III Ceraunus (King of Syria)

8. Coin: electrum stater

Museum number:
8-4397
Culture or time period:
Carthaginian and Greek Hellenistic Period (323–30 BC)
Object class:
Coins (money) and Staters
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
ca. 340-242 BC
Dimensions:
weight 7.32 grams and linear 19 millimeters
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Carthage, Tunisia
Person depicted:
Persephone (Greek deity)

9. Equestrian figurine

Museum number:
8-107
Culture or time period:
Cypro-Archaic I (700–600 BC)
Object class:
Figurines
Production date:
Bichrome IV (ca. 700-600 BC)
Dimensions:
height 15.5 centimeters, width 4 centimeters, and length 12.5 centimeters
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Cyprus
Collection date:
October 26, 1901

10. Flask

Museum number:
8-175
Object class:
Flasks (bottles)
Dimensions:
length 7.75 centimeters, height 10.75 centimeters, and diameter 4 centimeters
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Syria
Collection date:
September 20, 1900

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