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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Ionia| > |Colophon| > RP72150
Herennius Etruscus, Early 251 - First Half of June 251 A.D., Kolophon, Ionia
|Colophon|, |Herennius| |Etruscus,| |Early| |251| |-| |First| |Half| |of| |June| |251| |A.D.,| |Kolophon,| |Ionia|, The Clarian sanctuary lies in a small valley between Colophon and its harbor city Notium, and was surrounded by a sacred grove, as were the shrines of Didyma and Gryneum and many other temples of Apollo and his son Asclepius. The priest of Apollo Klarion would drink water before giving oracles. Pliny insisted that the Clarian water, while it inspired the priest, also shortened his life. Christian writers would later cite Apollo Klarios in a collection of pagan arguments for monotheism. When asked, "What is God?," he answered in a long hexametrical text which begins: "Born from itself, teacherless, motherless, unshakable, not giving in to one name, but having many, living in fire: this is god, and we, his messengers (angeloi) are a tiny bit of God." -- Apollo by Fritz Graf
RP72150. Bronze AE 30, Milne Colophon 252; BMC Ionia, p. 44, 57 - 58; SNG Cop -; SNGvA -; SNG Munchen -; SNG Tüb -, aF, well centered, green patina, porous, pitted, Kolophon (near Degirmendere Fev, Turkey), Ionia mint, weight 9.256g, maximum diameter 29.7mm, die axis 180o, as caesar, 249 - early 251 A.D.; obverse KV EP ETP ME ΔEKIOC KAI, bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, from front; reverse EΠI CTPA ΦΛ AΓAΘOKΛEOVC KOΛOΦO,NIΩN (ΠI and TP ligate, ending in exergue), Apollo Klarios seated left, laureate, nude to waist, himation around waist and legs, left leg drawn back, laurel branch downward in right hand, kithara resting on seat behind held with left; very rare; SOLD











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