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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Consigned Returned 2021| > WR67663
Adranon, Sicily, c. 344 - 336 B.C.
|Consigned| |Returned| |2021|, |Adranon,| |Sicily,| |c.| |344| |-| |336| |B.C.|, Adrano, around 41 km northwest of Catania, lies near the foot of Mount Etna, at the confluence of the Simeto and Salso rivers. Dionysius the Elder founded it around 400 B.C. to strengthen Syracusan power in the region and named it in honor of Adranus, a Phoenician deity. In 344 B.C. Timoleon battled Iketas of Leontini, the Syracusan commander, near Adranon. In the following years, Adrano was frequently harried by the Mamertines. The Romans conquered Adranon in 263 B.C. and declared it a civitas stipendiaria, obliging it to pay costly tribute to Rome. The consul Valerius ravaged the town, enslaved the inhabitants and sold them to the aratores (farmers) in nearby Centuripe. After an unsuccessful slave revolt in 137 B.C., Adrano was nothing more than part of Centuripe.
WR67663. Bronze hemilitron, cf. Calciati III p. 160, 7; SNG Morcom 506; HGC 40 (R1), BMC Sicily -; SNG ANS -; SNG Cop -; Laffaille -, F, Adranon mint, weight 5.034g, maximum diameter 18.7mm, die axis 0o, c. 344 - 336 B.C.; obverse head of Athena left, wearing plain Corinthian helmet over leather cap; reverse [AΔPANITAN] (or similar, often retrograde), octopus; Wrong size for Adranon; extremely rare; SOLD











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