Obol公司 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Obol公司
品名（英）	Obol
入馆年号	1936年，36.30.333
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 100 - 公元前 1
创作地区
分类
尺寸	3/8 英寸 (1 厘米)
介绍（中）	钱币学家——研究硬币的学者——将硬币的"正面"称为"正面"，"背面"通常以人或神的头像为特征这枚小银币残缺不全，很难识别上面的类型。正面是国王的半身像，面朝左侧。他留着胡子，留着波浪形的长发，戴着一顶有锯齿的王冠。图像被点的边界所包围。尽管可以看到波斯铭文的部分内容，但背面的字体几乎无法辨认这枚硬币是波斯国王阿尔达希尔二世在公元前一世纪的某个时候铸造的。波斯指的是伊朗西南部的一个地区，那里是阿契美尼德帝国的中心地带。在塞琉古王朝和帕提亚王朝的统治下，波斯由阿尔达希尔等客户国王统治，他们在硬币上结合了阿契美尼德、塞琉古和帕提亚的图像元素这枚硬币是在设拉子附近的Qasr-i Abu Nasr发掘的。该遗址的大部分材料可以追溯到萨珊王朝时期（公元224-651年）；这枚硬币是为数不多的表明它在帕提亚时期也被占领的物品之一。
介绍（英）	Numismatists – the scholars who study coins – refer to the ‘front’ side of the coin, which usually features the head of a person or god, as the ‘obverse,’ and the ‘back’ side as the ‘reverse.’ This small silver coin is in fragmentary condition, making it difficult to identify the types on it. On the obverse, a bust of the king faces to the left. He has a beard and long wavy hair, and wears a crenelated crown. The image is surrounded by a border of dots. The reverse type is all but impossible to discern, though parts of a Persian inscription are visible. This coin was minted by King Ardashir II of Persis, sometime in the first century B.C. Persis refers to a region in southwestern Iran which was the heartland of the Achaemenid Empire. Under the Seleucids and Parthians, Persis was ruled by client kings like Ardashir, who combined elements of Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian iconography on their coins. This coin was excavated at Qasr-i Abu Nasr, near Shiraz. Much of the material from the site dates to the Sasanian period (A.D. 224-651); this coin is one the few objects suggesting it was occupied in the Parthian period as well.