Savoca Coins
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Arkadia. Orchomenos. Septimius Severus AD 193-211.
Diassarion (2 Assaria) Æ
23 mm, 5,50 g
[...]CEOVHP[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / [ΟΡΧΟ]ΜΕΝ[ΙΩΝ], Artemis expels Callisto: Artemis standing facing left, her head to right, holding bow (?) with her right hand and extending her left to Callisto right, who holds a bow.
nearly very fine
Not in the standard references (BCD Peloponnesos -; BCD Peloponnesos II -; BMC -; Imhoof-Blumer NCP -).
Callisto was a huntress, and a companion of Artemis. Zeus, however, enjoyed her charms; and, in order that the deed might not become known to Hera, he metamorphosed her into a she-bear. But, notwithstanding this precaution, Callisto was slain by Artemis during the chase, through the contrivance of Hera. Arcas, the son of Callisto, was given by Zeus to Maia to be brought up, and Callisto was placed among the stars under the name of Arctos. Ovid makes Juno (Hera) metamorphose Callisto; and when Arcas during the chase was on the point of killing his mother, Jupiter (Zeus) placed both among the stars. The Arcadians showed the tomb of Callisto thirty stadia from the well Cruni: it was on a hill planted with trees, and on the top of the hill there was a temple of Artemis Calliste or Callisto (Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology).
From the Tareq Hani collection.
Diassarion (2 Assaria) Æ
23 mm, 5,50 g
[...]CEOVHP[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / [ΟΡΧΟ]ΜΕΝ[ΙΩΝ], Artemis expels Callisto: Artemis standing facing left, her head to right, holding bow (?) with her right hand and extending her left to Callisto right, who holds a bow.
nearly very fine
Not in the standard references (BCD Peloponnesos -; BCD Peloponnesos II -; BMC -; Imhoof-Blumer NCP -).
Callisto was a huntress, and a companion of Artemis. Zeus, however, enjoyed her charms; and, in order that the deed might not become known to Hera, he metamorphosed her into a she-bear. But, notwithstanding this precaution, Callisto was slain by Artemis during the chase, through the contrivance of Hera. Arcas, the son of Callisto, was given by Zeus to Maia to be brought up, and Callisto was placed among the stars under the name of Arctos. Ovid makes Juno (Hera) metamorphose Callisto; and when Arcas during the chase was on the point of killing his mother, Jupiter (Zeus) placed both among the stars. The Arcadians showed the tomb of Callisto thirty stadia from the well Cruni: it was on a hill planted with trees, and on the top of the hill there was a temple of Artemis Calliste or Callisto (Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology).
From the Tareq Hani collection.