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The Amazon Kyme
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City of Kyme
Bronze 17mm
2d century BC
Artemis, holding long torch, greeting the Amazon Kyme, holding scepter
KY; Two figures (Apollo and Kyme?) in quadriga right
SNG München 512; SNG Copenhagen 113; SNG von Aulock 7698
According to the geographer Pomponius Mela, writing about 43 AD, amazons had long camped in Pontus when they dominated Anatolia. They had worshipped Artemis at Ephesus and named the town Kyme (Cyme) after the amazon leader who drove out the native inhabitants. (Adrienne Mayor, The Amazons, 47-48). Kyme wears Scythian garb as depicted elsewhere, but an amazon most likely would not have worn a helmet.
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