7/30/2023 0 Comments Tessera led![]() FI within circle / A within shallow incuse square. Triple palm branch on two leaves / Man standing facing, legs apart, both hands raised.ĪE Unit or Tessera, Argos, Argolis, 4th-2nd c. Male head right / Winged griffin (?) standing right. V above and to right of horse standing right / V above horse standing right. Artemis Ephesia cult statue facing / Lion standing right. Victory driving galloping quadriga right / Three grain ears. Bateson 9 Campana D9-14 Vienna 32.756 Buttrey Scene 5, pl.3 (for scene type) BMC R.4476. Woman lying right on her stomach, head turned, man kneeling over her / XIIII within wreath. Mercury, naked, standing left, holding purse and cornucopiae / Blank. Pegasus walking right, small head above / Blank, domed. Bust of Hermes right, caduceus over shoulder, all within wreath. Owl standing right / Wheel with four spokes. Appears to be from a series similar to Paris 463-464. A with dot in centre / N with dot in centre. Wicker basket / N-P to left and right of wreath, both ties curves the same way. ROMA on club (?) within a wreath / Worn smooth but with letter A visible from the original legend. Lead tessera, probably early 1st century AD. AN Δ above and beneath a locust right / (reverse not shown: Blank.) ABΡA CAΞ beneath crescent with one star. IAω beneath Abraxas with serpent legs, holding whip and shield. Lead Gnostic Tessera of Egypt, 18 mm, 3.22 g. Elsen 124, 404 Rauch 8, 685 Engel BCH 57 var (IAW on this reverse, branch on obverse). ABΡA CAΞ above and beneath crescent with one star. IAω, Anguipede (Abraxas) with serpent legs, holding whip and shield. Lead Gnostic Tessera of Egypt, 18 mm, 3.51 g. * The number of tesserae and seal varieties is unimaginably large because of the ease with which tesserae were melted down and re-used.īrowse tesserae with thumbnail images. with bust of emperor), please see the appropriate emperor page. However, many of the greatest numismatic works written to date and which are still used as standard references are from the 19th and early 20th century. * I can't afford all the modern literature and catalogs of tesserae and lead pseudo-coins, so I use what I have, including (what someone has sneeringly called) "obscure and/or outdated works" (19th and early 20th century) and or "invented" references (=sellers numbers)" (although that person asked me whether I could please translate Rostovtsev's 1900 catalog for him !). Overbeck, Rostovtsev, Scholz, Engel, Paris, Dissard, Ruggiero, Ficoroni, Cohen etc, the seller's, owner's or collector's own number has been used. * Where no reference number could be found in e.g. * This page comprises only of tesserae and seals to ca.
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