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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4206838, member: 82322&quot;]Flying pig attempting take-off:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1078430[/ATTACH]</p><p>IONIA. Klazomenai. Pseudo-autonomous issue circa c. 180-218 AD. Bronze AE15, 2.17 g.</p><p>Obv: Helmeted and bust of Athena wearing aegis, right.</p><p>Rev: KLA/ZOM around and beneath winged boar running right.</p><p>Ref: SNG Cop. 114-5v; BMC <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_WsCAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA30#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_WsCAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA30#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">111-2</a>; RPC IV online <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/907" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/907" rel="nofollow">907</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Barclay Head wrote “The distinctive badge of the city appears from the later inscribed coins to have been a winged boar; cf. Aelian (<i>De Natura Animalium,</i> xii. 38), who relates, on the authority of Artemon, that such a monster once infested the Clazomenian territory.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Although Barclay Head and numismatists describe this as a winged boar, on Thoi.org it is being called a sow: <a href="https://www.theoi.com/Ther/HusKlazomenaios.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theoi.com/Ther/HusKlazomenaios.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.theoi.com/Ther/HusKlazomenaios.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Aelian, <i>On Animals</i> 12. 38 (trans. Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd A.D.) :</p><p>&quot;I have heard that on Klazomenai (Clazomenae) [an island west of Smyrna] there was a sow with wings, and it ravaged the territory of Klazomenai. And Artemon records this in his <i>Annals of Klazomenai</i>. That is why there is a spot named and celebrated as ‘The Place of the Winged Sow,’ and it is famous. But if anyone regards this as myth, let him do so.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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