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Colchian II Type Silver Didrachm
Silver. Weight: e.g. 9,6 gr., 9,9 gr., 10,4 gr. – Persian stater;
e.g. 8,7 gr., 9,2 gr., – Attic didrachm.
d≈18/20-21/23 mm.
Obverse: Archaic female head to the right within the linear circle (the same as on the II type hemidrachm).
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Colchian Silver Drachm
Silver. Weight – 5,52 gr.
d=17/19 mm.
Obverse: Lion’s head facing.
Reverse: Bull’s head to the right in quadratum incusum.
Mint: Phasis.
Nominal: Siglos of the Persian system
Date: 5th c. BCE.
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Colchian Type I Silver Hemidrachm
Silver. The weights range from 1,7 to 2,6 gr.
d=11/12-12/13 mm.
Obverse: Lion’s head to the right/left, showing teeth.
Reverse: Lioness’ protome to the right in quadratum incusum. Mint: Phasis. Nominal: Attic system hemidrachm...
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Colchian Type II Silver Hemidrachm
Silver. Weights range from 1,2 to 2,6 gr.
d≈12 mm.
Obverse: Archaic female head to right/left within the linear circle or in border of the dots
. Reverse: Bull’s head to right within the linear circle. Some of the coins are with the...
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Colchian (So-called) Hemitetartemorion
Silver. Weight: 0,150 gr., 0,111 gr., 0,110 gr.
Obverse: Archaic female head to the right (identical with archaic female head depicted on the II type hemidrachm).
Reverse: Bird (crane) to the right. Mint: Phasis. Nominal: Attic...
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Hurrian Lion, Urkesh
A copper-alloy lion with an inscription in Hurrian, Urkesh. 2100 BCE. (Louvre Museum, Paris)
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Colchian Silver Tetradrachm
Silver. Weight: sample of the Hague Museum – 10,40 gr., sample of the British Museum – 12,72 gr., sample of the Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia – 13 gr. The weights range from 10,40 to 13 gr.
d≈22 mm.
Obverse: Exceptionally depicted...
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Colchian Type I Silver Didrachm
Silver. Weight: 10 gr., 10,1 gr., 11,3 gr., 11,4 gr. – Persian stater; 7,9 gr., 8,1 gr., 8,6 gr., 8,6 gr., 9,4 gr. (?) – Attic didrachm.
d= 17/20-20/21 mm.
Obverse: Lying hermaphrodite lion to the right/left with a head turned back.
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Bronze Age Anatolia
A map of Bronze Age Anatolia. Indicated in the northeast is the Hayasa-Azzi confederation, an indigenous Bronze Age tribal confederation which flourished on the plateau of ancient Armenia and Turkey between c. 1500 and c. 1200 BCE.
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South Gate Reconstruction, Teishebaini
A reconstruction of the main South Gate of Teishebaini (aka Tesebaini, near modern Yerevan in Armenia) which was an important fortress city of the Urartu civilization. Founded in the reign of king Rusa II (r. c. 685-645 BCE) and abandoned...
