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Diobol of Lycia with lion attacking bull, struck under Päriklä (Perikles)
Greek
Classical Period
about 380–362 B.C.
Mint: Lycia
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 11.5 mm. Weight: 1.23 gm. Die Axis: 8
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number59.50
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek Coins, 1950-1963 (MFA), no. 235.
DescriptionObverse: Lion to right, on the back of and attacking a bull kneeling to left. Ground line and border of dots.
Inscription in Lycian around and in exergue.
Reverse: Head of Athena three-quarters left, wearing a Corinthian helmet, crested and ornamented with forepart of a sphinx to left. Around neck, knotted aegis(?). At upper left, triskeles.
Name-inscription in Lycian around.
Inscription in Lycian around and in exergue.
Reverse: Head of Athena three-quarters left, wearing a Corinthian helmet, crested and ornamented with forepart of a sphinx to left. Around neck, knotted aegis(?). At upper left, triskeles.
Name-inscription in Lycian around.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Byron Th. Zoumboulakis, 8 Place de la Taconnerie, Geneva, Switzerland; purchased by MFA from Byron Th. Zoumboulakis, February 12, 1959, for $ 225.00