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Start Over Media available legacy documentation Culture or time period Ancient Greek chronology Loans S2015-2016 #3: Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) (May 5, 2016–August 2, 2016)

1. 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)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. Crocodile mummy

Museum number:
6-21633
Culture or time period:
Ptolemaic dynasty (332–31 BC) and Roman Empire (27 BC–395 AD)
Object class:
Mummies (bodies)
Dimensions:
length 49 centimeters, width 8 centimeters, and depth 3.5 centimeters
Collector:
Arthur S. Hunt and Bernard P. Grenfell
Collection place:
Cemetery 6, Tebtunis, Faiyum region
Collection date:
1899-1900
Taxon:
Crocodylus niloticus

9. Kylix (eye cup)

Museum number:
8-40
Culture or time period:
Greek Archaic Period (700–480 BC)
Object class:
Kylikes
Dimensions:
diameter 21 centimeters and height 9 centimeters
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Athens, Attica, Greece
Person depicted:
Artemis (Greek deity)

10. Lekythos

Museum number:
8-16
Culture or time period:
Greek Archaic Period (700–480 BC)
Object class:
Lekythoi
Dimensions:
width 10.5 centimeters and height 35.5 centimeters
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Athens, Attica, Greece
Collection date:
May 20, 1901

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