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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8024473, member: 118780&quot;]<a href="https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1715373" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1715373" rel="nofollow">This article</a> gives an explanation.</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><i>On the Hellenistic and colonial coins of Alexandria there is a grazing horse, standing to left or to right. The depiction of a horse on the coins of the city most likely indicates that horses were raised in the city and its environs. In fact, the horses seen on the coins of Alexandria Troas are an allusion to mythology. According to Homer (Iliad, XX.219-230), King Erichthonius, who ruled in Troas, had many thousands of horses grazing in the pastures of his land. Another myth (Iliad, V.265-66) has it that Zeus abducted Ganymedes, the son of King Tros, so as to have the boy serve him drinks on Mount Olympus, and Zeus left the king a pair of immortal horses as compensation. The Troas took its name from King Tros, who was the son of King Erichthonius and the father of Ganymedes. Like its coins, the weights of Alexandria bear also a grazing horse with ALE, the abbreviated ethnic of the city. So one may say that the horse is a civic badge (parasemon) of Alexandria in Troas.</i></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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