Athena / Owl Ancient Arabian-Greek AR Drachm - circa 2nd Century, BCE
- Description
Ancient Arabian-Greek AR drachma in 18Kt Yellow Gold Bezel on hammered Sterling Silver Link Bracelet with lobster claw clasp. Obverse: Helmeted head of Athena, "N" on cheek. Reverse: Owl, standing right, head facing; olive spray and inverted crescent above. This type of coin is beleived to be minted in Saba by the people known as the Sabeans of South Arabia and is an ancient imitative of the famous Athene and Owl coins of the Greek Empire and was hard currency traded all across the Mediterranean.
Dimensions: 7" long, 5/8" wide. Certificate of Authenticity
Saba is better known, from the Old Testament, as Shebe, which today is part of Yemen. Sheba is the English equivalent of Sh'va, which is the transliterateration of the Hebrew word for Saba. The story of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba appears not only in the bible, but ias also cited by various ancient Assyrian, Greek and Roman writers. Hearing of the great Jewish king's wisdom, the Queen of Saba traveled north, probably around 950-930 BCE, to test the king with "hard questions." The meeting was a success, and the two nations began trading heavily with one another. The Sabeans also traded heavily with the Greeks, hence their copying of the famous Athena / Own tetradrachms some 7 centuries later.Earlier, perhaps around 4000 BCE, Yemen is thought to be where the Semetic people originated, and much earlier, around 110,000 years ago, the local that mankind reached first when migratingout od Africa.
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