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FROM HUGO GRESSMANN, ALTORIENTALISCHE TEXTE ZUM ALTEN TESTAMENT, VOL. 2 (BERLIN AND LEIPZIG: DE GRUY TER, 1926–1927), PL. CCXXVIII, NO. 601

NOAH-IN-THE-BOX. This Apamean coin shows Noah and his wife in the ark, which is depicted as a box with an open lid floating on water, with the name Noah (Greek: ΝΩΕ) on the box. It dates to the reign of Philip the Arab (Marcus Julius Philippus Augustus, A.D. 244–249).