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Triton XXIV 19-20 Jan 2021
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (17.5mm, 16.08 g). Head of Zeus-Ammon right on tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 130; Greenwell 3; Boston MFA 1520 = Warren 1423; SNG BN 281; BMC 55; Gulbenkian 640; Jameson 1419. Lightly toned. VF. Well centered.
From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex RAJ Collection (Triton XVII, 7 January 2014), lot 262, purchased from F. Shore in 1997; Classical Numismatic Group 40 (with Numismatica Ars Classica, 4 December 1996), lot 1027.
This type depicts the deity Zeus Ammon, at first a local Libyan deity that was popularized throughout the Greek world with the help of Pindar the poet, the first Greek to dedicate an ode to the god. Alexander the Great later famously spared Pindar's house during his sack of Thebes, and made his own visit to the shrine of Zeus Ammon in the Siwa Oasis to follow in the footsteps of Heracles and Perseus, the purported founders of the Achaemenid and Macedonian dynasties. This further popularized the worship of Zeus Ammon and helped make him an established part of the Greek pantheon throughout the Hellenistic world.
From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex RAJ Collection (Triton XVII, 7 January 2014), lot 262, purchased from F. Shore in 1997; Classical Numismatic Group 40 (with Numismatica Ars Classica, 4 December 1996), lot 1027.
This type depicts the deity Zeus Ammon, at first a local Libyan deity that was popularized throughout the Greek world with the help of Pindar the poet, the first Greek to dedicate an ode to the god. Alexander the Great later famously spared Pindar's house during his sack of Thebes, and made his own visit to the shrine of Zeus Ammon in the Siwa Oasis to follow in the footsteps of Heracles and Perseus, the purported founders of the Achaemenid and Macedonian dynasties. This further popularized the worship of Zeus Ammon and helped make him an established part of the Greek pantheon throughout the Hellenistic world.