CILICIA, Tarsos. Tarkumuwa (Datames). Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia, 384-361/0 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 10.44 g, 1h). Struck circa 370 BC. EF.

Triton XXIX
Lot: 297. Estimated: $ 750

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CILICIA, Tarsos. Tarkumuwa (Datames). Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia, 384-361/0 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 10.44 g, 1h). Struck circa 370 BC. Baal of Tarsos, wearing himation, seated right, head and torso facing, holding grain ear and grape bunch in extended right hand, cradling eagle-tipped scepter in left arm; B’LTRZ (in Aramaic) to left, thymiaterion in background; all within crenellated wall / Ana, nude, standing right, extending right hand and pointing at the head of Tarkumuwa, standing left, wearing chlamys, leaning on staff in left hand, right hand raised; [A]NA (in Aramaic) to lower left, thymiaterion and TRKMW (in Aramaic) between; all within square dotted border in linear border. Casabonne Series 3; Moysey Issue 5; SNG BN 294 = de Luynes 2841 = Traité II 618; SNG Levante 83 var. (no name of Ana on rev.). Lightly toned, a few light cleaning marks. EF. Rare with name of Ana on reverse.

From the collection of Emeritus Professor N. Keith Rutter. Ex Peter J. Merani Collection (Triton XXIV, 19 January 2021), lot 23; CNG inventory 152993 (August 2014).


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