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| 表面の説明 | Diademed head of the deified Alexander III (the Great) in right profile, exhibiting characteristic wavy hair and the horn of Ammon curling from the temple — an intentional iconographic synthesis of Macedonian royal imagery and Egyptian divine kingship. The diadem is tied at the nape of the neck, its ends falling loosely behind. The portrait is executed in a bold, idealized Hellenistic style, with the plain field bearing no legend, underscoring the heroic, quasi-divine status of the effigy. Ptolemy I employed this obverse type as a deliberate act of dynastic legitimization, associating his sovereignty with the prestige and sacred authority of the deified conqueror. |
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| 裏面の銘文 | BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY (Translation: King Ptolemy.) |
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Ptolemy I did not assume the title of king until 305/304 BC, meaning this piece was struck when he still ruled Egypt as satrap — a deliberately ambiguous position he had held since 323 BC following the partition of Alexander's empire at Triparadisus. The shift to royal coinage was partly a response to Antigonus Monophthalmus declaring himself king in 306 BC, forcing the other Diadochi to reciprocate or appear subordinate. Bronze issues of this transitional moment are poorly documented in many collections, and the Lorber corpus remains the primary reference for resolving attribution questions among early Ptolemaic bronzes.