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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 24648329, member: 87809&quot;]The triskeles earliest use is seen three millennia before appearing on Syracuse coins. Initially a religious symbol of the sun, likely representing Baal. Agathokles adopted it as his emblem, presumably because the triangular shape resembles the shape of Sicily. </p><p>It is quite possible that Aspendos in Pamphilia, which also used the triskeles symbol on their wrestler coinage, had been in contact with Lycia. At the time of the Lycian league, which existed since the 3rd century the triskelion was not used on coinage anymore.</p><p>Familiar as an ancient symbol of Sicily, it dates back to when Sicily was part of Magna Graecia, the colonial extension of Greece beyond the Aegean. Pliny the Elder attributes the origin of the triskelion of Sicily, the ancient Trinacria from the Greek tri (three) and akra (end, limb), to the triangular form of the island, which consists of three large capes equidistant from each other, pointing in their respective directions, the names of which were Pelorus, Pachynus, and Lilybæum.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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