WHW 2

  • WHW 2
  • Hellenistic
  • Seleucid
  • Commercial weight
  • Under Alexander I Balas
  • Berytos
  • Year 162 SE (151/150 BC)
  • 1 mina
  • Lead
  • Cast lead
  • Square
  • 88mm
  • 87mm
  • 558g
  • Pondera # 12838 (same object); Ziad Sawaya, “The Hellenistic Weights of Berytos-Loadicea of Phoenicia (185/4?-64/3 BC)”, Syria 100, 2023, no. 9 (same object).
  • Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut), purchased from the S. Moussaieff Collection during the CNG Electronic Auction 114, n. 543 (13 May 2020).rom the S. Moussaieff Collection during the CNG Electronic Auction 114, n. 543 (13 May 2020).
  • 2020-05-13
  • Produced by the agoranomos Dôrotheos.

Galley right, with two rudders, two rows of oars and stern ornamented by aphlaston

LBXR | A–GO (above), ‘year 162, ago

ΔΩPOΘЄOY |  MA (below),  ‘Dôrotheos, 1 mina

all within a simple square frame surrounded by a simple raised  square border

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