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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8109697, member: 75937&quot;]TGIFF!!!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://c.tenor.com/2WF1ho1ri2gAAAAd/friday-dance-tgif.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://eaglesanddragonspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Io-Saturnalia-Banquet-scene.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>While I was at work yesterday, Mrs. Collector signed for a mysterious package that arrived by registered mail from Spain. I was not expecting a package from Lvcernae or Jesus Vico or any such auction firm and I knew it could be from none other than SECRET SATVRN! Just in time for the holiday!!!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://y.yarn.co/fe34a2a6-3c09-433b-b654-f80aad73398c_text.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In addition to a warm holiday greeting from Secret Saturn, there were two coins, one of which depicted my favorite Roman, Faustina the Younger! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was a Roman provincial from the city of Saïtta in Lydia.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410876[/ATTACH] </p><blockquote><p><font size="3">This map (original source uncited) from <a href="https://www.ancientmoney.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ancientmoney.org/" rel="nofollow">Ancientmoney.org</a>[1] depicts the city in its presumptive location on the Hyllus River in Lydia.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>The site of the city of Saïtta (Σαίτται) has long been located by historians and archaeologists at Sidas Kale on the Ilgi-Chai river in modern Turkey. The coins of the city mention two rivers, VΛΛΟϹ (Hyllus) and ЄΡΜΟϹ (Hermus), inferring that the city&#039;s territory extended to the Hermus, some 15 km (10 mi) south of Sidas Kale, and it was bounded on the east by the Ilgi-Chai (probably the Hyllus of the coins).[2]</p><p><br /></p><p>The ruins of that town consist of a stadium,[3] tombs and ruins of several temples.[4][5] The town is mentioned by Ptolemy[6] and Hierocles.[7] Hadrian once visited the city,[8] and the city struck coins from the reign of Hadrian to Philip I.[9]</p><p><br /></p><p>This particular coin was unknown to Head and von Aulock and does not appear in SNG Copenhagen. It depicts the empress in her earliest hairstyle, which was used on imperial coins from AD 147-149. Its reverse features Artemis hunting with a bow and hound, around which is written the name of the magistrate responsible for issuing the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410884[/ATTACH] </p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Faustina II, AD 147-175.</font></p><p><font size="3">Roman provincial Æ 19.5 mm, 4.46 g, 7 h.</font></p><p><font size="3">Lydia, Saïtta, under Fl. Herk(y)lanos, archon, c. AD 148-150.</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv: ΦAVCTЄINA CЄBACTH, draped bust right, wearing a string of pearls around head.</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev: ЄΠ Φ ΗΡΚΛΑΝΟV ϹΑΙΤΤΗΝΩΝ, Artemis advancing right, drawing arrow from quiver and holding bow; at feet to right, hound.</font></p><p><font size="3">Refs: RPC IV.2 online <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/11561" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/11561" rel="nofollow">11561</a> (temporary); BMC --; SNG Copenhagen --; SNG von Aulock --.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Do you have any coins of Saïtta? Post anything you feel is relevant! And io Saturnalia!!! </p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Notes</b></p><p><br /></p><p>1. Ancientmoney.org, <i>Map of Ancient Lydia</i>, <a href="https://www.ancientmoney.org/non_greek_kingdoms/lydia_map.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ancientmoney.org/non_greek_kingdoms/lydia_map.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.ancientmoney.org/non_greek_kingdoms/lydia_map.html</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Head, Barclay Vincent. <i>A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Lydia</i>. Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1901, pp. xci-xcii. Available <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/BMC/BMC_Lydia.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/BMC/BMC_Lydia.pdf" rel="nofollow">online</a> at Forum Ancient Coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Greenhalgh, Michael. <i>From the Romans to the Railways the Fate of Antiquities in Asia Minor</i>. Brill, 2013, p. 30. </p><p><br /></p><p>4. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0006%3Aentry%3Dsaittai" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0006%3Aentry%3Dsaittai" rel="nofollow">Saittae</a> at Perseus.tufts.edu.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. Hamilton, William J. <i>Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia: With Some Account of Their Antiquities and Geology</i>. Olms, 1984, p. 144.</p><p><br /></p><p>6. Ptolemy. The Geography. 5.2.21.</p><p><br /></p><p>7. Hierocles (Gustav Parthey, transl.), <i>Synecdemus</i>. Hakkert, 1967, p. 669.</p><p><br /></p><p>8. Birley, Anthony Richard. <i>Hadrian: The Restless Emperor</i>. Routledge, 2003, p. 168.</p><p><br /></p><p>9. &quot;Saitta.&quot; <i>RPC III, Saitta</i>, British Museum Press and the Bibliothèque Nationale De France, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=Saitta" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=Saitta" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=Saitta</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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