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Erythrai, Ionia, c. 330 - 300 B.C.
| The ruins of Erythrai are north of the town Ildiri in the Cesme district of Izmir Province, Turkey. The city did not lie exactly on the coast, but some little distance inland, and had a harbor on the coast named Cissus. Erythrae was never a large city, but was renowned for its wine, goats, timber, and millstones, as well as its prophetic sibyls, Herophile and Athenais. The Erythraeans were for a considerable time subject to the supremacy of Athens. About 453 B.C. Erythrae, refusing to pay tribute, seceded from the Delian League. A garrison and a new government restored the union, but late in the Peloponnesian War, in 412 B.C. it revolted again with Chios and Clazomenae. |  |
GB86474. Bronze AE 21, BMC Ionia p. 128, 102 - 103 var. (diff. magistrate); SNG Cop 634 var. (same); SNG Mün 638 var. (same), SNGvA -; SNG Tüb -; SNG Kayhan -; Lindgren -, VF, well centered, mottled green and red patina, a little rough, Erythrai (north of Ildiri, Turkey) mint, weight 4.550g, maximum diameter 20.8mm, die axis 180o, c. 330 - 300 B.C.; obverse head of Herakles right, clad in Nemean Lion scalp headdress, tied at the neck; reverse EPY above club left, HPOΔOTOΣ / HPAKΛEOY (Herodotos son of Herakleos) in two lines across center, bow inside case right below; apparently unpublished with this magistrate and the only example known to Forum; SOLD
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