Karanis / coin / Bronze / Copper

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.06.6010
Other Number: Haatvedt 1734
Type of Number: Catalogue Number
Object Name: coin
Lot: University of Michigan excavation (Karanis)
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Coins
Materials: Bronze; Copper
Weight: 1.5g
Quantity: 1
Inscribed: no
Artifact Obverse Inscription: (AELEVDO) XIAAVG
Full Artifact Description: Coin of Empress Eudoxia. Obverse: Bust of Eudoxia; Reverse: Victory seated. Bronze; 1.0 cm dia., 0.1 cm th., 1.5 g (Karanis Revealed, Wilfong).
Verbatim Date: 400 AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Karanis
Authority: Arcadius_for_Aelia_Eudoxia
Mint: Cyzicus
Countermark: no
Coin Obverse Description: Bust of Eudoxia r., mantled, with headdress; above, hand holding wreath.
Coin Obverse Inscription: (AELEVDO) XIAAVG
Coin Reverse Description: Victory seated r., inscription on shield resting on small column.
Inscription Obverse Text: (AELEVDO) XIAAVG
Publication Title: Coins from Karanis: the University of Michigan Excavations, 1924-1935; Karanis Revealed: Discovering the Past and Present of a Michigan Excavation in Egypt; Karanis, the temples, coin hoards, botanical and zoological reports, seasons 1924-31
Publication Author: Haatvedt, Rolfe and Peterson, Enoch; Boak, Arthur E.R.
Publication Year: 1964; 2014; 1933
Class Title: Tours of the Past; The Ancient Roman World
Class Instructor: Gibelyou, Cameron; Dufallo, Basil
Class Department: UC; Classics
Class Number: 300; 102
Class Year: 2017
Class Semester: Winter
Type Category: Numismatic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.06.6010
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.06.6010/dscn9419.jpg

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Full citation: "Karanis; coin; Bronze; Copper." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.06.6010/dscn9419.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.