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Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
Rhodes
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker
Date400 B.C.E. - 304 B.C.E.
MediumSilver
DimensionsDiameter: 11/16 in. (1.8 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from Hamilton College Archives, Burke Library. Gift of Nathaniel Emmons Paine, Class of 1874
Object numberS2018.1.8
Not on view
DescriptionAncient Rhodes, located in the Aegean Sea, is most famously known for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Rhodes minted its coinage according to its own standards. This coin depicts the head of the sun god Helios, a prominent Rhodian deity, on its obverse. On its reverse is a rosebud, another symbol of Rhodes, with the inscription POΔION, meaning “of the people of Rhodes.” This coin is a part of the Paine Coin Collection. This teaching collection of 32 Greek and Roman coins was formed by John Alsop Paine (1840 – 1912), Class of 1859, who was an archaeologist with the Palestine Exploration Society and a Curator in the Department of Casts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1889 until 1906. The collection came to the college through John Alsop Paine’s grandson, Nathaniel Emmons Paine (1853 – 1948), Class of 1874.
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Provenance 2018: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by transfer from College Archives, Burke Library;
?: Hamilton College, by gift of Nathaniel Emmons Paine (1853-1948);
?: Nathaniel Emmons Paine (1853-1948), presumably by inheritance or gift from his grandfather, John Alsop Paine (1840-1912);
?: John Alsop Paine (1840-1912), by excavation.
Inscribed POΔION ("of the people of Rhodes") on reverse
© David Kennedy Cutler. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton C…
Mount
David Kennedy Cutler
Date: 2011
Medium: Archival inkjet on Japanese paper, data of compact disks, and pigmented cotton
Object number: 2016.16
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Greek Stater, Agrigento
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: 413 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.
Medium: Bronze
Object number: S2018.1.16
© Roberto Lugo courtesy of Wexler Gallery. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum o…
First
Roberto Lugo
Date: 2020
Medium: Glazed ceramic and enamel paint
Object number: 2021.1a-b
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Greek Tetradrachm, Syracuse
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: 490 B.C.E. - 461 B.C.E.
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.10
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Greek Tetradrachm, Alexander the Great, Macedonia
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: 336 B.C.E. - 323 B.C.E.
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.9
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Greek Stater, Anactorium
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: 350-300 B.C.E.
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.2
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Greek Stater, Ptolemy I Soter, Egypt
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: 305-284 B.C.E.
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.4
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Greek Stater, Ptolemy V Epiphanes, Egypt
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: 204 B.C.E. - 180 B.C.E.
Medium: Bronze
Object number: S2018.1.13
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
Carthaginian Stater, Carthage
Date: 410 B.C.E. - 310 B.C.E.
Medium: Bronze
Object number: S2018.1.15
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Greek Tetradrachm, Athens
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: c. 460 B.C.E.
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.1
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Greek Stater, Thurium
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: 390 B.C.E. - 350 B.C.E.
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.6
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
Greek Tetradrachm, Leontini
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: 500-466 B.C.E.
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.5