Contributions to Anatolian History and Numismatics 6-9 The first chapter discusses in detail the main type of Imperial coinage minted by the Pisidian city of Selge. This type is shown to depict the city's principal sanctuary of Zeus and Heracles and not a styrax press as Suzanne Amigues recently tried to prove. Though apparently rooted in ancient Anatolian traditions, the sanctuary also served as a venue for the rites of the Roman emperor-worship and for the festivals of the Epinikia. The second chapter deals with the representation of a myth on an Imperial coin from the small Lycian mountain town of Arneai. The coin depicts a sexual assault by the lecherous god Pan on a fount nymph who wards off the indecent act (gr. arneomai) and was thereupon given the name Arne («she who says no»). It is in her eponymic function that the nymph is shown on the coin of this small Lycian town. The local mythical tradition and the concomitant Greek interpretation of its name conceal the Lycian or Luvian origin of the toponym which in this language more or less means
Field : Filoloji; Güzel Sanatlar; Sosyal, Beşeri ve İdari Bilimler
Journal Type : Uluslararası
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