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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bob L., post: 8070391, member: 56976&quot;]My &quot;almost made it&quot; group.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Pottery runners-up:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1399772[/ATTACH] </p><p>From the Arthur M. Sackler Collection: a cup and three large vessels from ancient Iran (top left, top right, center right, lower right), early first millennium BC. Largest dimensions provided here: Cup height = 10.8 cm (4.25”), vessel at top left = 25.4 cm (10”) wide, jug at center right = 24.13 cm (9.5”) tall, jug at bottom right = 20.3 cm (8”) tall. The squat lekythos fragment (not from Sackler&#039;s collection), lower left, is about 3” in length.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Weapons runners-up:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1399774[/ATTACH] </p><p>Left: Bronze dirk, likely western or northwestern Iran, 1200-800 BC, 42.5 cm (16.73”)</p><p>Middle: Bronze dagger with flanged grip for inlays, Western Asia – possibly Luristan, 1200-800 BC, 29.7 cm (11.7”)</p><p>Right: Bronze spear butt (counterpoise), Western Asia, likely NW Iran, early first millennium BC, 17.2 cm (6.8”)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>And an actual coin!:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1399775[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Tigraios</b></p><p>AE unit, c. 138/7 - 133/2 BC</p><p>Van&#039;t Haaff 5.5</p><p>Photo credit: <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/" rel="nofollow">www.forumancientcoins.com</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I only purchased a couple of coins this year. Despite its ugliness, this one is special and it filled an important gap in my collection of coins from Elymais. It was issued by Tigraios, likely a local king who took control of the Elymaean capital Susa in 138/7 BC and seized power from Phraates II, the Parthian viceroy to Elymais. This is, to date, my only coin from the period of the so-called Early Kamnaskirid Dynasty – making it the oldest coin in my Elymais collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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