CoinsGreek4th century BCE

Hekte of Mytilene, Lesbos

377 - 326 BCE

Description

Obv.: Head of the young Dionysos, beardless, with short curly hair, wearing an ivi-wreath with six leaves and berries to r. Rev.: Youthful head to r., wearing a head band with a small horn, surrounded by a linear square.

Classification

Coins

Technique

Struck

Medium

Electrum

Culture

Greek

Period

Classical period, Late

Century

4th century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

2.54g

Provenance

[Wayte Raymond] 13 January 1921, sold; to John Work Garrett (1872-1942) bequeathed; to John Hopkins University (1942) sold; by mail bid auction by Numismatic Fine Arts, Inc. and Bank Leu AG, "The Johns Hopkins University, The Garrett Collection, Part III" March 29, 1985 lot 79; to Jane Ayer Scott, Newton MA (1985-2008) by inheritance; to her husband Wellington F. Scott III, (2008-2010), gift; to The Harvard Art Museums, 2010.