For those of you unable to attend my presentation on Acheloios for the ANS, I'll be repeating it at the Twin Cities Ancient Coin Club via Zoom this Thursday, at 9:00 PM EDT. Long past my bedtime but I will try and sound coherent! [EDIT: Zoom link now removed]
I really enjoyed your presentation for the ANS Long Table back in February. I believe your transcript is online at academia.edu , but not the slides. Here are two coins from my collection: Emporion AR obol 510-480 BC 0.82 gm 12 mm O: man-faced bull protome left R: crude incuse punch ACIP 2 Panormos AR litra 410-380 BC 0.7 gm O: male head left R: man-faced bull protome right; Punic "SYS" above SNG ANS 550 I assume Acheloios is represented even in late 6th century Spain and a Punic city (that sometime copied coin designs of Greek Sicilian cities)
Yes, the older the better, but still always embodied in the local river since he was inseparable from water, and that wasn’t just a Greek phenomenon. For Panormos that would be Orethos (so Acheloios Orethos), but I haven’t researched Emporion yet. Those are both great examples. I still don’t have the Emporion type.
Acheliois must have abandoned Emporium, Emporiae by then, in the 2nd or 3rd century AD. At that time, the Fluvia River changed course, probably due to an earthquake, and now drains in the Mediterranean 2-3 km north. As a result, the city lost its major fresh water supply, the harbor silted up and the old city on an island, now Sant Marti d’Empuries, became land locked. Emporiae was abandoned by the Romans around that time. Accounts for the well preserved archaeological site that can be seen today.
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