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Silver Orontid Rhyton
A silver rhyton from Yerznka, ancient Armenia, 5th century BCE when it was ruled by the Orontid dynasty.
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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.
