CARIA, Mylasa. Circa 250-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.00 g, 12h). Rhodian standard. Iatrokles, magistrate. VF.

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Lot: 284. Estimated: $ 1 000

Greek, 12h, Silver

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CARIA, Mylasa. Circa 250-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.00 g, 12h). Rhodian standard. Iatrokles, magistrate. Zeus Labraundos standing right, wearing chiton and himation, holding labrys in right hand, left hand holding staff set on ground / Zeus Osogoa standing right, wearing chiton and himation, holding eagle in right hand, left hand holding trident; MYΛAΣEΩN to left, IATOKΛHΣ to right. Delrieux Group B, 3 (D3/R3 – this coin, illustrated); Akarca –; HN Online 1723 var. (additional letters on rev.). Lightly toned, deposits, roughness, scratches. VF. Extremely rare; the only example published of this issue.

From the Pythagoras Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 565 (May 1993), no. 42.

According to the first century BC Greek geographer Strabo (Geography 14. 2. 23), the Mylasians had three temples of Zeus in their city. In addition to the temples of Zeus Labraundos and Zeus Karios, a third was dedicated to Zeus Osogoa, an indigenous Carian god. The temple complex dedicated to him in Mylasa was of such a size and style that Pausanias (8.10.3) equated it with the Athenian Acropolis. The cult statue depicted here first appeared on very rare tetradrachms of Maussolos struck at Mylasa, circa 377 BC. It also appears later on cistophori of Hadrian, as well as Roman provincial bronze issues of Mylasa. For a further discussion of this god, see A. Laumonier, Les cultes indigènes en Carie (Paris, 1958), pp. 45-126.

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