Silver "owl" 1/8 unit, c.200-100 BC, Sabaean Kingdom, Arabia

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Stylized helmeted head of Athena to r., uncertain letter on cheek// Owl standing to right, head facing; olive spray and crescent to left, AΘE to right. 7mm, 0.26 grams. Cf. Zeno 272550.

ex-Album. 

Better than the scan. Very tiny fraction, perhaps meant to be 1/16 of a unit. Imitating the Athenian owl coinage, showing their familiarity with the popular Mediterranean coinage. 

The Sabaeans or Sabeans were an ancient group of South Arabians. They spoke Sabaic, one of the Old South Arabian languages. They founded the kingdom of Sabaʾ in modern-day Yemen, which is considered to be the biblical land of Sheba and the oldest and most important of the South Arabian kingdoms.


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