Artemis thinks we're a bunch of nerds!

My daughter was named for a Greek goddess. I sent her the cartoon and she replied:

 

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Hi All,

So here's something you don't often see: Artemis on a Ptolemaic coin.

It is the only Ptolemaic coin type with Artemis. This Artemis paired with Apollo type comes from Cyrenaica and is known in two denominations, Svoronos 1137 = diobol (about 27 mm., and 16 g), and Svoronos 1138 = dichalkon (about 15 mm and 2 g). Seller's images.



Ptolemy V Epiphanes (205/204-180 BCE)
Cyrenaica, Cyrene, Bronze Weight Standard 1

Æ DIOBOL
Size: 27 mm
Weight: 13.88 g

OBV: Apollo and Artemis(with bow and quiver over shoulder) jugate busts, facing right. Dotted border.
REV: Ptolemy I diademed head with scaly aegis, facing right. Legend starting in left field: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; In right field: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ. Dotted border.
Refs: Svoronos-1137, pl. xxxvi, 20-23 [13 listed]; SNG Copenhagen-454; ; BMC Vol06.079, #13 / BMC 29, #105; Asolati (2011), 71. Buttrey 63.

According to Lorber "T.V. Buttrey (1997, p. 43), followed by M. Asolati (2011, p. 31), suggested they might reflect the marriage of Ptolemy VI to his sister Cleopatra II. The style, however, features strongly protruding chins and recalls the portraiture of the Alexandrian silver of Ptolemy V. The Apollo typology, absent from Cyrenean coinage since the reign of Magas, could allude (through the equivalence of Apollo to Horus) to the insistent identification of Ptolemy V with Horus, both in priestly decrees and on his coinage. Just as Apollo was the Greek equivalent of Horus, Artemis was identified with the Egyptian goddess Bast. The cat-headed Bast had no role in early versions of the Osirian myth, but in Ptolemaic times she was reinterpreted as the sister of Horus."

- Broucheion

 

Unfortunately not only Artemis/Diana thinks we're a bunch of nerds ... :-(