Melita · ram’s head
c. 220-218 BC · Civic authority of Melita
A veiled and diademed female head faces right. The reverse depicts a ram’s head. The museum cautiously identifies the female figure as Astarte; that identification should remain qualified.
Technical specifications
- Composition
- Bronze
- Mint
- Melita
- Weight
- Unknown / not verified
- Diameter
- Unknown / not verified
- Total mintage
- Unknown / not verified
- Edge
- Unknown / not verified
- Obverse
- Veiled female head facing right
- Reverse
- Ram’s head facing right
- Inscriptions
- 'nn
- Colour
- Unknown / not verified
- Serial format
- Unknown / not verified
The museum specimen
Measurements describe this museum specimen, not a manufacturing standard.
- Collection
- Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen
- Object / accession
- 18321105 / 1906 Löbbecke
- Specimen weight
- 3.15 g
- Specimen diameter
- 17 mm
- Die axis
- 11 h
Museum text attribution and licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen
Dating and classification
Museum dating is a scholarly attribution; bibliography records alternative chronologies. Earlier catalogue dates should not be treated as exact.
Sources
Checked:
- Malta Numismatic Society — Currency before the Knights
- Coins of Malta — Melita and Gaulos collection
- Berlin Münzkabinett — Melita (18321105)
- Museum structured record
Related issues
- Gaulos · helmeted goddess and warrior · c. 220-1 BC
- Melita · lyre · c. 150-146 BC
- Melita · MELITAS and tripod · c. 43-33 BC
- Melita · Isis with ear of corn · c. 150-146 BC
- Melita · curule chair · c. 43-33 BC
- Melita · Osiris, Isis and Nephthys · c. 217-175 BC
- Melita · Isis with Tanit symbol · c. 150-146 BC
- Melita · priestly cap and club · c. 220-218 BC
- Melita · decorated tripod · c. 220-218 BC