Bertolami Fine Art
Auction 12 29-30 October 2014
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Sicily, Tetradrachm, Katane, c. 410-405 BC; AR (g 17,16; mm 26; h 9); Charioteer wearing long kiton, driving fast quadriga l.; at r., Ionic cumn, above, flying Nike r., holding wreath and tablet inscribed EYAIN. Below the horse, pellet, in ex., crab, Rv. KATANAIΩN, laureate head of Apollo l.; at l., a bell hanging on a knotted fillet, at r., crayfish. Rizzo, pl., XIV, 6; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG ANS 1260; Pozzi 965; Gulbelkian 188-189.
Very rare, old cabinet tone, the best specimen known. A masterpiece of the Classical art. Signed by Euainetos, good extremely fine.
The polis of Katane was founded in 729 B.C. by colonists from Chalcis, coming from Eubea. In 476 BC, Hieron I drove all the inhabitants of Naxos and Katane, transferring them to Leontinoi, and repopulating it with the people of Syracuse and the Peloponnesian origin, changing the name to Aitna. With the fall of the Deinomenid dinasty, in 461 BC, all the exiles returned in tha ancient city, giving it back its old name. At the end of the fifth century BC, the polis was under the influence of Syracuse and tried to become independent siding with the Athenian advance in Sicily. The defeat Athens decreed the end of the autonomy of Katane.
Very rare, old cabinet tone, the best specimen known. A masterpiece of the Classical art. Signed by Euainetos, good extremely fine.
The polis of Katane was founded in 729 B.C. by colonists from Chalcis, coming from Eubea. In 476 BC, Hieron I drove all the inhabitants of Naxos and Katane, transferring them to Leontinoi, and repopulating it with the people of Syracuse and the Peloponnesian origin, changing the name to Aitna. With the fall of the Deinomenid dinasty, in 461 BC, all the exiles returned in tha ancient city, giving it back its old name. At the end of the fifth century BC, the polis was under the influence of Syracuse and tried to become independent siding with the Athenian advance in Sicily. The defeat Athens decreed the end of the autonomy of Katane.