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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Lydia| > |Thyatira| > RP82634
Caracalla, 28 January 198 - 8 April 217 A.D., Thyatira, Lydia
|Thyatira|, |Caracalla,| |28| |January| |198| |-| |8| |April| |217| |A.D.,| |Thyatira,| |Lydia|, Ilos, son and heir to Tros, king of the Trojan people, won a wrestling prize at games held by the King of Phrygia. He received a prize of fifty youths and maidens and the king, on the advice of an oracle, also gave him a cow and asked him to found a city where it should lie down. When the cow laid to rest, Ilos prayed to Zeus for a sign. At once he saw, fallen from heaven, the Palladium, a wooden image of Pallas or Minerva. Ilos built his city and a temple to house the statue. Troy was believed to safe from foreign enemies as long as the Palladium remained within the city walls. But Odysseus and Diomedes stole the image and soon after the Greeks took the city. The Palladium was later taken by Aeneas to Rome where for centuries it was kept in the temple of Vesta in the Forum. In Late Antiquity, it was rumored that Constantine had taken the Palladium to Constantinople and buried it under the Column of Constantine.
RP82634. Bronze AE 27, BMC Lydia p. 310, 100, aVF, Thyatira (Akhisar, Turkey) mint, weight 9.650g, maximum diameter 27.1mm, die axis 180o, 28 Jan 198 - 8 Apr 217 A.D.; obverse AVT K M ANTΩNEINOC, laureate and cuirassed bust right from behind; reverse ΘYATEIPHNΩN, Athena seated left, wearing helmet, peplos and chiton, Palladium in extended right hand, spear in left, shield ornamented with rosette resting against throne; SOLD











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