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TROAS, Ilium. Crispina. Augusta, AD 178-182. Æ (28mm, 11.92 g, 6h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Statue of Athena of Ilium right on decorated short column, holding transverse spear and Palladium; to right, cow suspended left from tree, man sacrificing her from behind with knife. Bellinger T198; RPC IV.2 Online 131.14 (this coin); von Fritze, Ilion 85. Earthen brown patina, scrape on obverse. VF.
Ex David Simpson Collection (Triton V, 16 January 2002), lot 1721; Auctiones AG 17 (7 June 1988), lot 343; Sternberg XI (20 November 1981), lot 276.
Ilos was the legendary founder of Troy, which he named after his father, Tros. Ilos had followed a cow until it rested, and there built the city after having prayed for a sign that he had chosen the right spot. The sign that Zeus had provided was a statue that was sacred to Athena, the Palladium (Athena Ilias). Ilos built a temple to house the statue, and Troy was safe from foreign enemies as long as the Palladium remained within the city walls (Homer, Iliad 21.231-236; Apollodorus 3.12.2-3)
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