Ephesos, which Magistrate?

[zoser]

Can someone tell the Magistrate's name?

[Altamura]

Size? Weight? Other side? And perhaps sharper pictures.

Regards

Altamura

[Dave S3]

Looks to read "THΡOΣΩHI", is this correct?


Dave

[Pekka K]

Imhoof lists this found in GCAM:
Province, Region:   IONIA
Place of minting:   EPHESUS
Minting period:   Between -280 and -258
Name of magistrate(G):   HROP'WN
Name of magistrate(G):   ΗΡΟΦΩΝ
Obverse
Type:   ANIMAL / BEE / WITHIN / BIRD'S-EYE VIEW
Reverse
Legend(G):   HROP'WN
Legend(G):   ΗΡΟΦΩΝ
Type:   ANIMAL RECUMBENT L / STAG
Attributes:   HEAD R
Technical details
Metal:   AE
Diameter (mm):   17.00(1)
Weight (g):   3.96(1)
Bibliographical references
this coin:   IMHOOF KM S51,19(1) / COLL IMHOOF(1)

[Altamura]

It clearly does not look like ΗΡΟΦΩΝ, and THΡOΣΩHI does not seem to be a Greek name .

In Benseler, "Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen", Braunschweig 1870, you find on page 472 the name HPOΣΩN or fully HPOΣΩNTOΣ:
https://books.google.de/books?id=4KVGAAAAcAAJ&hl=de&pg=PA472#v=onepage&q&f=true
which probably is the one here.

Benseler mentions that this name occurs on a coin from Erythrai, described in Mionnet Suppl. VI-1, page 216-17, numbers 921-22:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k399118x/f220.item

Coins of this type are these:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b103093640
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10309366w

So the magistrate's name on the coin here is HPOΣΩN(TOΣ), this is a real Greek name occuring on ancient coins  , we only have (at least up to now) no reference for coins from Ephesos with this name  .

Regards

Altamura

[curtislclay]

HPOΣΩN is listed as a name occurring on coins of Ephesus in the 2nd cent. BC by Leschhorn, Lexicon of Greek Coin inscriptions (2009), p. 539, citing Fraser and Matthews, A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (1987 ff.) and Kinns, unpubl. Cambridge dissertation on coins of Ionia (1980).

[OldMoney]

HPOΣΩN is listed as a name occurring on coins of Ephesus in the 2nd cent. BC by Leschhorn, Lexicon of Greek Coin inscriptions (2009), p. 539, citing Fraser and Matthews, A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (1987 ff.) and Kinns, unpubl. Cambridge dissertation on coins of Ionia (1980).

I can confirm Curtis' determination, the name is HPOΣΩN;
adding that it is the same type as shown in Kinns' article in NC 1999, p.96, Type ‘F’.
Since that article Philip & I have tripled the number of Magistrates found therein.

- Walter


P.S. A response to Altamura's first reply-post would also be nice!

[Altamura]

... I can confirm Curtis' determination, the name is HPOΣΩN;
adding that it is the same type as shown in Kinns' article in NC 1999, p.96, Type ‘F’. ...

But do we have a real printed reference for HPOΣΩN on a coin from this type of Ephesos (and not only someone who knows someone who has somewhere seen such a coin )?

In the dissertation of Philip Kinns I only find HPOΣΩN on coins from Erythrai, in the 1999 NC article HPOΣΩN isn't mentioned .

Regards

Altamura