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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 5184270, member: 75937"]Resurrecting this thread to let everyone know about a new academic publication about Athena Itonia, <a href="https://brill.com/view/title/56256" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://brill.com/view/title/56256" rel="nofollow"><i>Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess</i></a> by Gerald V. Lalonde (Brill, 2020).</p><p><br /></p><p>This avatar of Athena appears commonly on coins of Thessaly. In the chapter on "Thessaly," Lalonde comments on the rich evidence from this region which supports the argument that the cult of Athena Itonia in Thessaly was very old.</p><p><br /></p><p>He notes a variety of cognate-<i>Iton </i>linguistic terms, spanning from the month Itonios to two toponyms, Iton and Itonos, and the festival of the Itonia. This suggests that the byname Itonia has a toponymic etymology: Athena Itonia was probably the result of a merger of a local goddess with Athena and was adopted by the Thessalians as soon as they reached historical Thessaly after leaving Epiros. As the 'maid of Iton,' Athena Itonia was "as early as the Geometric period the principal military patron of the Thessalians" (p.33).</p><p><br /></p><p>In his treatment of the archaeological evidence, Lalonde argues that the rich sanctuary excavated at Philia (ancient Thessaliotis) by Theocharis in the 1960s was not the only <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temenos" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temenos" rel="nofollow">temenos</a> </i>for Athena Itonia in Thessaly. In addition to numerous votives found at Philia, further discoveries were made elsewhere in the area, especially in the region of Achaia Phthiotis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's my latest acquisition featuring Athena Itonia:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1213109[/ATTACH]</p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ assarion, 6.04 g, 19.2 mm, 1 h.</p><p>Koinon of Thessaly, Larissa, AD 158-165.</p><p>Obv: ΦΑVϹΤЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤΗ; bare-headed and draped bust of Faustina II, right.</p><p>Rev: ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΘЄϹϹΑΛⲰΝ; Athena Itonia in snake-adorned aegis, striding right, brandishing spear and holding shield.</p><p>Refs: RPC IV.1 <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/4570" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/4570" rel="nofollow">4570</a> (temporary); Rogers 98a, SNG Cop 349; SNG Evelpidis 1685; BCD Thessaly II 966.1 & 966.2.</p><p>Notes: Ex-BCD collection. Issued in three denominations: tetrassarion (RPC 4569), diassarion (RPC 4568), and assarion (such as this coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>Although [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] has an example from the BCD collection (see above) and I just acquired another, neither of ours are the examples in the BCD Thessaly II catalog.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1213117[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 5184270, member: 75937"]Resurrecting this thread to let everyone know about a new academic publication about Athena Itonia, [URL='https://brill.com/view/title/56256'][I]Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess[/I][/URL] by Gerald V. Lalonde (Brill, 2020). This avatar of Athena appears commonly on coins of Thessaly. In the chapter on "Thessaly," Lalonde comments on the rich evidence from this region which supports the argument that the cult of Athena Itonia in Thessaly was very old. He notes a variety of cognate-[I]Iton [/I]linguistic terms, spanning from the month Itonios to two toponyms, Iton and Itonos, and the festival of the Itonia. This suggests that the byname Itonia has a toponymic etymology: Athena Itonia was probably the result of a merger of a local goddess with Athena and was adopted by the Thessalians as soon as they reached historical Thessaly after leaving Epiros. As the 'maid of Iton,' Athena Itonia was "as early as the Geometric period the principal military patron of the Thessalians" (p.33). In his treatment of the archaeological evidence, Lalonde argues that the rich sanctuary excavated at Philia (ancient Thessaliotis) by Theocharis in the 1960s was not the only [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temenos']temenos[/URL] [/I]for Athena Itonia in Thessaly. In addition to numerous votives found at Philia, further discoveries were made elsewhere in the area, especially in the region of Achaia Phthiotis. Here's my latest acquisition featuring Athena Itonia: [ATTACH=full]1213109[/ATTACH] Faustina II, AD 147-175. Roman provincial Æ assarion, 6.04 g, 19.2 mm, 1 h. Koinon of Thessaly, Larissa, AD 158-165. Obv: ΦΑVϹΤЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤΗ; bare-headed and draped bust of Faustina II, right. Rev: ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΘЄϹϹΑΛⲰΝ; Athena Itonia in snake-adorned aegis, striding right, brandishing spear and holding shield. Refs: RPC IV.1 [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/4570']4570[/URL] (temporary); Rogers 98a, SNG Cop 349; SNG Evelpidis 1685; BCD Thessaly II 966.1 & 966.2. Notes: Ex-BCD collection. Issued in three denominations: tetrassarion (RPC 4569), diassarion (RPC 4568), and assarion (such as this coin). Although [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] has an example from the BCD collection (see above) and I just acquired another, neither of ours are the examples in the BCD Thessaly II catalog. [ATTACH=full]1213117[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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