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Below is a checklist of The School of Athens on postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.) and numismatic items (banknotes and coins). Catalog numbers, years of issue, and notes on the items featured are given when available. If readers know of additional information or images, please contact the authors using the e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.
Several Ancient and pre-Renaissance Contributors to Meteorology are found in Raphael's painting The School of Athens, This annotated image identifies the 7 contributors who are also listed below. Some postal items contain partial reproductions or reproduction details from this work of art. They include therefore fewer than the 7 contributors found in the full work. In some cases, a postal item features only one of the 7. In a few others, none of them are included.
| Number | Name | Location | Description | Thumbnail |
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| 7 Contributors in The School of Athens | ||||
| 1 | Heraclitus (535?–475? BC) | at lower-middle | seated man in the foreground and leaning on a marble block |  |
| 2 | Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126–1198) | at lower-left | man in a turban |  |
| 3 | Aristotle (384–322 BC) | at center-back | tall man in the blue robe in front of arch |  |
| 4 | Theophrastus (of Lesbos) (372?–287? BC) | at center-right | tall bald man in long orange robe |  |
| 5 | Strabo (64? BC–23? AD) | at lower-right | man in white robe with long beard holding the celestial sphere (facing the viewer and partially hidden by Ptolemy) |  |
| 6 | Ptolemy (90?–168? AD) | at lower-right | man in a golden robe with his back to the viewer and holding the Earthly sphere | |
| 7 | Anaximander (610–546 BC) | at lower-left | seated bearded man in an orange robe |  |
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| Ajman | Mi1718 | Stamp from SS1 (BL391) | 1972 | Aristotle and Theophrastus (in a partial reproduction) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ajman | Mi1885 | One of block of 6 (Mi1881-1886) | 1972 | all 7 names (in a full reproduction) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ajman | | One of block of 6 (Mi2212-2217) | 1972 | ?? (in a partial reproduction) |
Angola | 1150h (Mi1560) | One of MS17 (1150 (a-h + label)) (Mi1553-1569) | 2000 | none of the 7 names (in a reproduction detail) |
Antigua and Barbuda | 3589 (Mi5861-5864) | In (right) margin of MS4 (3589 (a-d)) | 2020 | Aristotle (in a partial reproduction) |
Antigua and Barbuda | 3590 (BL814, Mi5665) | On stamp and in (lower) margin of SS1 | (a partial reproduction with) Aristotle and Theophrastus (in stamp); Heraclitus, Anaximander, and Averroes (in lower and lower-left margin) |
Burundi | Unknown (Mi?) | Unknown imperf From MS2 (perf + imperf stamps), or from MS4 (4x perf stamp) | 2022 | Heraclitus, Aristotle, and Theophrastus (in a partial reproduction) |
Burundi | Unknown_ms fdc | MS4 and (multi-color printed) cachet on FDC
| Burundi | Unknown ms (Mi?) | In (right) margin of MS2
| Cambodia | 408 (Mi484) | From MS25 (408a (25x 408)) | 1983 | Anaximander and Averroes (a partial reproduction) |
Central African Republic | 1708 (BL784, Mi3250) | In (left and lower-left) margin of SS1 | 2011 | Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Heraclitus (in a partial reproduction) |
Central African Republic | Mi13992 | Stamp from SS1 (BL2880) | 2023 | all 7 names (in a full reproduction) |
Chad | Unknown a (Mi none) | One of MS9 (a-i) | 2009 | "Aristotle" (in a partial reproduction) |
Chad | Unknown fdc | One of three stamps on FDC (brown printed cachet)
| Chad | Unknown ms fdc | MS9 on FDC
| Chad | Unknown ss (BL?) | SS1, also annotated | 2015 | Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Heraclitus (in the margin, a partial reproduction) |
China (People's Republic) | None | Postal card back, also front | 2010? | all 7 names (in a full reproduction) |
Comoro Islands | 256a (BL93) | In (upper-right) margin of SS1 (256) | 1977 | Aristotle and Theophrastus (in a partial reproduction) |
Djibouti | Mi6344 | Stamp from SS1 (BL2066) | 2023 | all 7 names (in a full reproduction) |
Greece | 1258 (Mi1317) | 1978 | Aristotle and Theophrastus (in a partial reproduction) |
Greece | 1257-1260 fdc | One of four stamps on FDC (Greek Post cachet)
| Greece | 2742a fdc (BL105, Mi2896 fdc) | (Greek Post) cachet on SS1 FDC | 2016 | Aristotle (in a reproduction detail) |
Greece | 2882b fdc (BL142, Mi3041C-3045C fdc) | (Greek Post) cachet on MS5 FDC | 2019 | all 7 names (in a nearly-full reproduction) |
Guinea Republic | BL1167 | In (upper-right) margin of SS1 (Mi4653) | 2007 | Aristotle (in a reproduction detail) |
Guinea Republic | Mi9451-9453_ms3 | In (lower-right) margin of MS3 (Mi9451-9453) | 2012 | Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strabo, Ptolemy, and Heraclitus (in a partial reproduction) |
Guinea-Bissau | Mi12605 | Stamp from SS1 (BL2226) | 2021 | all 7 names (in a full reproduction) |
Italy | 1911 (Mi2247) | 1992 | Heraclitus (at lower right, in a reproduction detail) |
Italy | P118 | 500,000 lire (banknote) | 1997 | Heraclitus, Aristotle, and Theophrastus (in a partial reproduction) |
Korea (North) | 2285a (Mi2341) | One stamp and in (lower) margin of MS3 (2285 (a-c + label)) (BL141) | 1983 | Aristotle, Heraclitus, Averroes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Anaximander (in lower margin of MS3, in a partial reproduction) |
Liechtenstein | 1821 (BL37) | SS1 | 2020 | all 7 names (in a full reproduction) |
Mali | Unknown ss fdc (BL? fdc) | (Multi-color printed) cachet on FDC | 2017 | Aristotle (at right in cachet, in a reproduction detail) |
Sierra Leone | 577 (Mi704) | 1983 | Strabo1 and "Ptolemy" (in a partial reproduction) |
Sierra Leone | 579 (Mi706) | "Heraclitus", Averroes, and Anaximander (in a partial reproduction) |
Sierra Leone | 580 (BL14, Mi707) | SS1 | Heraclitus, Aristotle, and Theophrastus (in a partial reproduction) |
Sierra Leone | 3816b (Mi7329) | One of MS4 (3816 (a-d)) (Mi7328-7331) | 2016 | all 7 names (in a full reproduction) |
Sierra Leone | 4089d (Mi8038) | One of MS4 (4089 (a-d)) (Mi8035-8038) | 2017 | Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Heraclitus (in a partial reproduction) |
United States | 1530 (Mi1137) | 1974 | Heraclitus (in a reproduction detail) |
United States | 1530 fdc1 | Stamp and (Colorano silk) cachet (design like stamp) on FDC (larger-font cancel)
| United States | 1530 fdc2 | Stamp on FDC (ArtCraft cachet, smaller-font cancel)
| United States | 1530 fdc3 | Stamp on FDC (ArtCraft cachet, larger-font cancel)
| United States | 1530-1537 cp | (Robert Dean and Co.) commemorative panel (1530-1537)
| Vatican City | 777 (Mi897) | 1986 | Heraclitus (in a partial reproduction) |
Vatican City | 778 (Mi898) | Ptolemy (in a partial reproduction) |
Vatican City | 778 fdc | Stamp and (The Golden Series) cachet on FDC | (As above for stamp); Strabo and Ptolemy (in a partial reproduction, in the cachet)
| Vatican City | 777-778 fdc1 | Two stamps and (Filagrano) cachet on FDC, also back | (As above for stamps); Heraclitus (in a partial reproduction, in the cachet) |
Vatican City | 777-778 fdc2 | Two stamps and (Filagrano) cachet on FDC, also back | (As above for stamps); Heraclitus (in a partial reproduction, in the cachet) |
Vatican City | 777-778 fdc3 | Two stamps and (KimCover no.112) cachet on FDC | (As above for stamps); Strabo and Ptolemy (in a partial reproduction, in the cachet) |
Vatican City | 777-778 fdc4 | Two stamps and (Filitalia no.56) cachet on FDC | (As above for stamps); Strabo and Ptolemy (in a partial reproduction, in the cachet) |
Vatican City | 777-778 fdc5 | Two stamps and (Roma) cachet on FDC | (As above for stamps); Strabo and Ptolemy (in a partial reproduction, in the cachet) |
Vatican City | 777-778 fdc6 | Two stamps and (Roma-Luxor no.70) cachet on FDC | (As above for stamps); Strabo and Ptolemy (in a partial reproduction, in the cachet) |
Vatican City | 777-778 fdc7 | Two stamps on FDC (Capitolium no.158 cachet) | (As above for stamps); none of the 7 names (in an artistic detail image, in the cachet) |
Vatican City | 777-778 fdc8 | Two stamps on FDC (Venetia cachet), also back | (As above for stamps); none of the 7 names (in an artistic detail image, in the cachet) |
Vatican City | 777-778 bulletin | Official bulletin with FDC cancel, also side1 and side2 | (As above for stamps) |
Yemen Arab Republic | 248B (Mi_A753) | i248B Imperforate 1968 | (1990th anniv. death) "Aristotle" (at right, in a reproduction detail) |
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1Some authors, and the stamp Sierra Leone 577, identify this figure as Zoroaster, with the idea that the celestial sphere represents his knowledge of astrology. However, Strabo is the more commonly-accepted identity, because of his studies of astronomy and celestial cartography.
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