WHW 27

  • WHW 27
  • Hellenistic
  • Commercial weight
  • Tyre
  • Year 12 T.E. = 115/114 BC
  • Half-mina
  • Lead
  • Cast lead
  • Square with suspension loop
  • 60 mm
  • 51 mm
  • 224.50g
  • 12h
  • Finkielsztejn 2015, p. 90, no. 136. Pondera # 11934 (similar specimen, 53.86 g)
  • Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut), purchased from the S. Moussaieff Collection during the CNG Electronic Auction 468, n. 216 (20 May 2020).
  • 0001-05-20
  • Very rare weight produced during the 12th year of Tyre’s autonomy. The name of the agoranomos is not mentioned.

Palm tree (in center),

BI | L –Α | ΓΟ ‘Year 12, ago

all within a square frame surrounded by a square raised border with egg and dart pattern.

Tanit symbol over lattice pattern.


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