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An Ancient Coin Depicts Noah’s Ark

Early association established between Turkish Ararat and Noah’s landing place

By Yaakov Meshorer

New evidence for the antiquity of the tradition associating Mt. Ararat in Turkey with the landing place of Noah’s Ark comes to us in the form of a unique coin on display at the Israel Museum. This large bronze medallion was struck 1700 years ago at Apameia Kibotos in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) near the mountains of Ararat where, it is said, Noah’s Ark came to rest after the flood. This coin, depicting the events of the story of Noah’s Ark related in Genesis 6–8, is the only coin-type known to bear a Biblical scene. Apameia Kibotos was a […]

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Endnotes

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See W.M. Ramsay, “The Legend of the Flood of Apameia” in The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, Clarendon Press, (Oxford, 1895), p. 671.