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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4900164, member: 99456"][USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER], [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER], I didn't expect to see another Rhyton of Skepsis! fun to see your coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=89211]@eparch[/USER] : a nice coin, there seem to be two different styles of pegasus/rhyton between your coin and mine, and even within variations on the AE coin. I wonder if both are showing a rhyton or if they are different? (below: left has a clear cup/horn, right looks like forepart of Pegasos without cup/horn?)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1182144[/ATTACH]</p><p>and I too add another word to my ancient coin vocabulary, Thanks!</p><blockquote><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Athenaios, 11.496 a, b, defines the plemochoe as "a terra cotta vessel shaped like a top standing on a steady foot." Athenaios continues and states that it was used during the Eleusinian Mysteries when, on the last day " they filled two plemochoai and set them up one to the east, one to the west, and then overturned them, saying mystic words as they did.</font></p><p><font size="4">-<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0004%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DP%3Aentry+group%3D12%3Aentry%3Dplemochoe" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0004%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DP%3Aentry+group%3D12%3Aentry%3Dplemochoe" rel="nofollow">Perseus Encyclopedia</a></font></p></blockquote><p>Easy to be seduced by the tales of ancient Troy and Homer, Aphrodite and Troy part of the Roman origin story as well. A nice trio of coins - thank you.</p><p>Thanks RC, your latest coin has the perfect balance of age and detail that I find attractive. This year , I have been enjoying study of the geography of Anatolia/Asia Minor - interesting to see Sigeion ~50km northwest of Skepsis and ~7km north of the archeological site of Ancient Troy.</p><p>Wonderful additions, [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER], and you open up the thought - how many more cities of Troas could we see....<b><b>Antandros, Dardanos, Gargara, Hamaxitos, Larisa-Ptolemais, <b>Neandria </b>Ophryneion, Sigeion, <b>Skepsis, </b> <b>Thymbra...</b></b></b>(25 listed in this <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dannyjones/British%20Museum%20Books/Catalog%20of%20Greek%20Coins%20in%20the%20British%20Museum%20-%20Troas%20Aeolis%20and%20Lesbos.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dannyjones/British%20Museum%20Books/Catalog%20of%20Greek%20Coins%20in%20the%20British%20Museum%20-%20Troas%20Aeolis%20and%20Lesbos.pdf" rel="nofollow">British Museum Catalog</a>)<b>...</b>here's one more:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1182427[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Troas, Alexandria Troas</b>, Circa 2nd-3rd centuries AD, AE</p><p><b>Obv:</b> ALEXA TRO, turreted head of Tyche right; vexillum inscribed in two lines behind CO/AV</p><p><b>Rev:</b> COL AVG / TRO, horse grazing right</p><p><b>Ref: </b><a href="https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.13392/page/n103/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.13392/page/n103/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">BMC Troas p. 16, 58</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4900164, member: 99456"][USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER], [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER], I didn't expect to see another Rhyton of Skepsis! fun to see your coins. [USER=89211]@eparch[/USER] : a nice coin, there seem to be two different styles of pegasus/rhyton between your coin and mine, and even within variations on the AE coin. I wonder if both are showing a rhyton or if they are different? (below: left has a clear cup/horn, right looks like forepart of Pegasos without cup/horn?) [ATTACH=full]1182144[/ATTACH] and I too add another word to my ancient coin vocabulary, Thanks! [INDENT] [SIZE=4]Athenaios, 11.496 a, b, defines the plemochoe as "a terra cotta vessel shaped like a top standing on a steady foot." Athenaios continues and states that it was used during the Eleusinian Mysteries when, on the last day " they filled two plemochoai and set them up one to the east, one to the west, and then overturned them, saying mystic words as they did. -[URL='http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0004%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DP%3Aentry+group%3D12%3Aentry%3Dplemochoe']Perseus Encyclopedia[/URL][/SIZE][/INDENT] Easy to be seduced by the tales of ancient Troy and Homer, Aphrodite and Troy part of the Roman origin story as well. A nice trio of coins - thank you. Thanks RC, your latest coin has the perfect balance of age and detail that I find attractive. This year , I have been enjoying study of the geography of Anatolia/Asia Minor - interesting to see Sigeion ~50km northwest of Skepsis and ~7km north of the archeological site of Ancient Troy. Wonderful additions, [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER], and you open up the thought - how many more cities of Troas could we see....[B][B]Antandros, Dardanos, Gargara, Hamaxitos, Larisa-Ptolemais, [B]Neandria [/B]Ophryneion, Sigeion, [B]Skepsis, [/B] [B]Thymbra...[/B][/B][/B](25 listed in this [URL='https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dannyjones/British%20Museum%20Books/Catalog%20of%20Greek%20Coins%20in%20the%20British%20Museum%20-%20Troas%20Aeolis%20and%20Lesbos.pdf']British Museum Catalog[/URL])[B]...[/B]here's one more: [ATTACH=full]1182427[/ATTACH] [B]Troas, Alexandria Troas[/B], Circa 2nd-3rd centuries AD, AE [B]Obv:[/B] ALEXA TRO, turreted head of Tyche right; vexillum inscribed in two lines behind CO/AV [B]Rev:[/B] COL AVG / TRO, horse grazing right [B]Ref: [/B][URL='https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.13392/page/n103/mode/2up']BMC Troas p. 16, 58[/URL][/QUOTE]
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