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"Heraklea" was a common name for cities in the ancient Greek world. The Wikipedia (as of Dec-2023) lists an island in the Aegean sea, seven ancient cities in Asia and 15 Little remains beyond ruins of a stadium and city walls of the ancient town, once located on the Phrygia-Caria This coin is rarely seen for sale - I found only two in ACSearch, both sold in the last 10 years, both The modern village of Hisarköy is located on top of the ruins of Attuda.

Ancient coins and art can give us insights into ancient peoples. The coin that I share today shows an image of a representative voting in ancient Antioch, province of Seleucia was the ancient sea port and capital of the Seleucid empire under Seleucos I and Pieria refers 40-bc The Boule (βουλή), was a council (Greek: βουλευταί) in the representative democratic system of ancient For more coins depicting voting in ancient Rome and discussion of voting and voting laws in the Roman

A modern map (Google) shows The Anxient site of Savatra (near modern Yaglibayat, Turkiye) with no lakes Although it doesn't look like the most hospitable aquatic environment - modern Lake Tuz (ancient Lake Tuz Dries Up Due to Climate Change, Farming. " Phys.org , 28 Oct. 2021, https://phys.org/news/2021-10 There is no village (as I understand) beside the ruins, and, to all appearance, the ancient name has

modern" times with a "modern" coin, I will ask the reader's patience...eventually it will go back to "ancient Although it doesn't have an emperor's portrait, this coin certainly brings to mind coins of ancient Rome Here are a few ancients that illustrate the persistent themes on this coin. The liberty cap granted to freedmen in ancient Rome was confused with the Phrygian cap and adopted as (See: A Coin for Independence Day, and Ancient Symbols). L.

shifting bed, layers of trodden charcoal were placed beneath, with fleeces covered with wool upon the top the night of July 21, 356 BC, seeking notoriety, he burned down the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in ancient Greece, which was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. However, this did not stop Herostratus from achieving his goal because the ancient historian Theopompus Photograph from 10 June 2017, by FDV, used under terms of CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons .

This post starts with a few thoughts on the ingredients that make up an attractive ancient coin and will There would be little value in differentiating ancient coins by the top tiers of the Sheldon scale. ), I try to simplify my framework for evaluating the quality of an ancient coin. This also offers an excuse to present some beautiful ancient coins. Some ancient coins were minted in the millions e.g.

(see: An Ancient Coin for Independence Day ). for the more common coin in this series Crawford 434/2 and this coin has 1/10th the number of dies (<10 There are images of this coin from 3 previous owners from top to bottom: McCabe (after 2019); CNG (2019

The Kingdom of Saba Saba’ was a real kingdom in ancient South Arabia, not a mythical locale. The Sabaeans, were an ancient Semitic-speaking people based in modern-day Yemen, who flourished due to Bibliography The Monetary Terminology of Ancient South Arabia in Light of New Epigraphic Evidence . Huth and P. van Alfen, eds., Coinage of the Caravan Kingdoms: studies in the monetization of ancient Christian Julien Robin, " Sabaʾ and the Sabaeans ", In: Queen of Sheba, Treasures from Ancient Yemen,

Following Hadrian" that explains: "The vase represents a form of the Egyptian god Osiris depicted as a jar topped description of the Canopic jar at the Egypt Museum which explains: "Osiris-Canopus was named after the ancient Egypt, Alexandria, Hadrian, AD 117-138, BI Tetradrachm, dated RY 10 (AD 125/6) Obv: Laureate, draped,

Thessaly was also inhabited by several ancient peoples who inhabited the Balkan Peninsula before the More information can be found in Rogers, Thessaly , published in 1935: "The Perrhaebi were one of the ancient References CNG Triton XV Catalog 3-Jan-2012 (BCD Thessaly II) Nomos Auction 4 10-May-2011 (BCD Thessaly

Where did the people of ancient Rome originate? These are the questions we take on in today's notes, inspired by some relatively recent analysis of ancient Roman origins in Arcadia Ancient Pelopennese, map by Jkan997, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons . -Claudian, The Rape of Proserpine p295 (I.27) The ancient theater of Dodona, Epirus, Greece. Ancient Rome: a genetic crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean , Ancient Rome Data Explorer Nathan

the end of Regnal Year 8: Egypt, Alexandria, Gallienus, 253-268 AD, BI Tetradrachm (23mm, 10.35g (top "Rhakotis" means 'construction site' in ancient Egyptian, and is thought to be an older name for the Milne, pp. 152-161, 1917 in Ancient Egypt vol. 4 by Peter Flinders, MacMillan and Company.