Alexander the Great Silver Tetradrachm, Hellenistic Period, c. 315 - 294 BCE Medium - Glass see: The Metropolitan Museum of

see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The spherical cage encloses a free-moving clapper

Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter

She observes that examples of this group are typically rendered in two-coloured glaze and seated upon elaborate openwork thrones whose sides are formed by the sinuous body of the snake god Nehebkau

this piece was core-formed

Alexander the Great Silver Tetradrachm, Hellenistic Period, c. 315 - 294 BCE Medium - Glass see: The Metropolitan Museum ofAlexander the Great Silver Tetradrachm Kingdom of Macedon, Hellenistic Period, ca. 315294 BCE Tarsos Mint, Cilicia (modern Turkey) Lifetime issue. NCG CH F 5 5 2 5, brushed. The obverse depicts a portrait of Heracles, the greatest warrior hero of ancient Greek mythology, facing right, wearing the famed lion skin headdress. The reverse depicts the divine Zeus, king of the Gods on Mount Olympus and father of Heracles, seated on a throne facing left, one