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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;expat, post: 25646562, member: 111067&quot;]The Temple of Artemis or Artemision (Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον; Turkish: Artemis Tapınağı), also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, localised form of the goddess Artemis (equalized to Diana, a Roman goddess). It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey). By AD 401 it had been ruined or destroyed.[1] Only foundations and fragments of the last temple remain at the site.</p><p><br /></p><p>The earliest version of the temple (a Bronze Age temenos) antedated the Ionic immigration by many years. Callimachus, in his Hymn to Artemis, attributed it to the Amazons. In the 7th century BC, it was destroyed by a flood.</p><p><br /></p><p>Its reconstruction, in more grandiose form, began around 550 BC, under Chersiphron, the Cretan architect, and his son Metagenes. The project was funded by Croesus of Lydia, and took 10 years to complete. This version of the temple was destroyed in 356 BC by an arsonist, commonly thought to have been a madman named Herostratus.</p><p><br /></p><p>The next, greatest, and last form of the temple, funded by the Ephesians themselves, is described in Antipater of Sidon&#039;s list of the world&#039;s Seven Wonders:</p><p><br /></p><p>What remains today.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_09/image.jpeg.abc74d43b6c0b8dbf7c5220b8243ed3d.jpeg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_09/image.jpeg.abc74d43b6c0b8dbf7c5220b8243ed3d.jpeg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_09/image.jpeg.abc74d43b6c0b8dbf7c5220b8243ed3d.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Archeologists discovered a rich foundation deposit from this era, also called the &quot;Artemision deposit&quot;, yielded more than a thousand items, including what may be the earliest coins made from the silver-gold alloy electrum.[11] The deposit contains some of the earliest inscribed coins, those of Phanes, dated to 625–600 BC from Ephesus, with the legend ΦΑΕΝΟΣ ΕΜΙ ΣΗΜΑ (or similar) (&quot;I am the badge of Phanes&quot;), or just bearing the name ΦΑΝΕΟΣ (&quot;of Phanes&quot;)</p><p><br /></p><p>Some examples ( sadly not my coins)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_09/image.jpeg.4bc3c8f3a87a5c87fc977bc37875563e.jpeg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_09/image.jpeg.4bc3c8f3a87a5c87fc977bc37875563e.jpeg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_09/image.jpeg.4bc3c8f3a87a5c87fc977bc37875563e.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Electrotype of electrum coin from Ephesus, 625–600 BC. Stag grazing right, ΦΑΕΝΟΣ ΕΜΙ ΣΕΜΑ (retrograde, &quot;I am the badge of Phanes&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_09/image.jpeg.e34dbb78c5eb6fc92a6ab35be9135f9c.jpeg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_09/image.jpeg.e34dbb78c5eb6fc92a6ab35be9135f9c.jpeg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_09/image.jpeg.e34dbb78c5eb6fc92a6ab35be9135f9c.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>The earliest known inscribed coinage, from the foundation deposit of the Temple of Artemis: electrum coin of Phanes from Ephesus, 625–600 BC. Obverse: Stag grazing right, ΦΑΝΕΟΣ (retrograde). Reverse: Two incuse punches, each with raised intersecting lines</p><p><br /></p><p>Which brings us to my new acquisition. Julia Mamaea with an interesting reverse. Each year there was a celebratory procession which featured a portrayal of Artemis carried along by two horses pulling a 4 wheeled sacred carriage called a carpentum.</p><p><br /></p><p>My coin</p><p><br /></p><p>Ionia. Ephesos. Julia Mamaea. Augusta AD 225-235.</p><p>Bronze Æ</p><p>28 mm, 11,52 g</p><p>RPC Volume: VI №: 4977 (temporary)</p><p>Reign: Severus Alexander Persons: Julia Mamaea (Augusta)</p><p>City: Ephesus&nbsp; Region: Ionia Province: Asia (conventus of Ephesus)</p><p>Denomination: Æ (30 mm) Average weight: 10.83 g.</p><p>Obverse: ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΜΑΜΑΙΑ ϹΕΒ; diademed and draped bust of Julia Mamaea, right</p><p>Translation: Julia Mamaea Augusta</p><p>Reverse: ΑΠΗΜΗ ΙΕΡΑ ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ (or ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ ΑΠΗΜΗ ΙΕΡΑ); carpentum</p><p>drawn by two horses, right</p><p>Translation: sacred carriage, of the Ephesians</p><p>Reference: Karwiese 806–7</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_09/carpentum-removebg-preview.png.c94ee07c9be39c5cf29b16bec37790c9.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_09/carpentum-removebg-preview.png.c94ee07c9be39c5cf29b16bec37790c9.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_09/carpentum-removebg-preview.png.c94ee07c9be39c5cf29b16bec37790c9.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for reading[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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