CNG 88, Lot: 1009. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (34mm, 20.08 g, 6h). Bust right, wearing crown and garment of the demiurgus / Perseus standing right, holding statuette of Apollo Lyceus, encountering fisherman advancing right, head left, holding rod with a fish on one end, a basket on the other. SNG France -; SNG Levante -; SNG Pfälzer -; SNG von Aulock -; BMC -; D.H. Cox, A Tarsus Coin Collection in the Adana Museum, NNM 92, 189 (this coin). Near EF, dark green patina, minor roughness. Rare.

From Group CEM. Ex Adana Museum Collection.

This coin was part of the collection donated to the Adana Museum in 1935 by the renowned archaeologist Hetty Goldman (1881-1972). The first woman to direct an officially sanctioned archeological excavation, Hetty Goldman was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Columbia University, and Radcliffe College, from where she received her PhD in 1916. Beginning in 1911, she excavated a number of sites in Greece and Turkey, including Halae, Colophon, Eutresis, and Tarsus. In her numerous publications, she illuminated the continuity of culture within the Mediterranean between the Semitic and the Greek cultures. In 1936, Goldman joined other intellectual luminaries - including Albert Einstein - at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. At the time of her death on May 5, 1972, she remained the only woman professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her published books include Excavations at Eutresis in Boetia (1931) and three volumes about excavations in Tarsus published in 1950, 1956 and 1963.