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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Okidoki, post: 2813760, member: 70512&quot;]IONIA, Miletus. Hadrian Ae 36 Zeus standing</p><p>Reference.</p><p>BMC - ;SNG von Aulock- ;SNG Copenhagen -; SNG France- ;RPC - ; RPC III,</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv. AΔPIANOC KAICAP ΟΛΥΜΠΙΟC</p><p>Laureate head right.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev: POVΦOV TO B ΜΙΛΗ- CΙΩΝ ΕΠΙ</p><p>Zeus standing right, wearing chlamys, holding thunderbolt, and resting hand on hip.</p><p><br /></p><p>26.25 gr</p><p>36 mm</p><p>6h</p><p><br /></p><p>Note.</p><p>The worship of Hadrian as &#039;Zeus Olympios&#039; in the east of the empire was also practiced in Miletus. A proof of this is this coinage, which the emperor explicitly names as &#039;ΟΛΙΜΠΙΟC&#039;. In addition, the archaeological excavations in Miletus have been used to discover a large number of household altars who had been consecrated to Hadrian, who had inscriptions such as &quot;The Caesar Trajan Hadrian Sebastos Zeus Olympios&quot; (Friesen, Imperial Cults, p. 177)</p><p><br /></p><p>Just in today what a big whopper[ATTACH=full]659111[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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