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The front of the 1-livre notes (B501) dated 1964-1980 depict the ruins of Corinthian columns of the Roman Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek. However, I can’t find any info on the unknown archeological artifact shown below.<\/p>\n
The front of the 5-livre notes (B502) dated 1964-1986 depict the National Museum of Beirut building with columns. However, I can’t find any info on the kneeling bull sculpture, figure with raised arm standing on coin, nor the meaning or language of the writing in the border.<\/p>\n
IDENTIFIED: The bull is a protome from the Aecheminid Dynasty (5th Century BC) found in Sidon, Lebanon<\/a>. If anyone knows what these objects are, please contact me with details<\/a>.<\/p>\n Courtesy of Petar II Blagojevic, Robin Hughes, Don Cleveland, and Abdullah Beydoun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am cataloging the Bank of Lebanon’s notes for publication in The Banknote Book, and I have been unable to identify a few items which appear on these notes. The front of the 1-livre notes (B501) dated 1964-1980 depict the ruins of Corinthian columns of the Roman Temple of JupiterRead More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[46],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-10988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-challenge","category-middle-east","tag-lebanon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28326,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions\/28326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIDENTIFIED: The writing in the margins look to be Phoenician<\/a>, though the meaning and source of the inscription is still unclear.
\nIDENTIFIED: The figure is Baal with raised arm<\/a> standing on 400-330 BC Phoenician 1\/8th shekel silver coin from the City of Byblos, King Adramelek<\/a>.<\/p>\n