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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Ptolemaic Egypt| > SH24844
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VI Philometor, 180 - 145 B.C., Arados, Phoenicia
|Ptolemaic| |Egypt|, |Ptolemaic| |Kingdom| |of| |Egypt,| |Ptolemy| |VI| |Philometor,| |180| |-| |145| |B.C.,| |Arados,| |Phoenicia|,
Ancient Arados, surrounded by massive walls on an island about 800 m long by 500 m wide, about 50 km north of Tripolis, was an important trading city with an artificial harbor on the east side toward the mainland. A walled island provides great security, but the lack of water on Arados was a serious challenge. Strabo recounts that Phoenicians collected rainwater and channeled it into cisterns, and that they shipped containers of fresh water from the mainland. Perhaps the most resourceful solution came from the fortuitous discovery—probably by sponge and coral divers—of an undersea freshwater spring, not far from the island in the channel between Arwad and the mainland. This spring, says Strabo, was exploited as a last resort when war or other crises interrupted water supplies from the mainland: "...into this spring the people let down from the water-fetching boat an inverted, wide-mouthed funnel made of lead, the upper part of which contracts into a stem with a moderate-sized hole through it; and round this stem they fasten a leathern tube (unless I should call it bellows), which receives the water that is forced up from the spring through the funnel. Now the first water that is forced up is sea-water, but the boatmen wait for the flow of pure and potable water and catch all that is needed in vessels prepared for the purpose and carry it to the city."Arados
SH24844. Silver tetradrachm, Svoronos 1207; Mørkholm NNA 167 - 170; SNG Cop 548; SNG Berry 1490; Cohen DCA 73; Noeske –; BMC Ptolemies -, Choice EF, Phoenicia, Arados (Arwad, Syria) mint, weight 14.154g, maximum diameter 27.8mm, die axis 0o, 169 - 168 B.C.; obverse diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis tied around neck; reverse ΠTOΛEMAIOY ΣΩTHPOΣ, eagle standing left on fulmen (thunderbolt), head left, wings closed, (year 91?) left; SOLD



  






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