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(A) ISLANDS OF THRACE.
On an Imperial coin of Hadrian (Mion. 11) the remarkable inscr.
CAMIuuN 0PAKH occurs. Cf. the line in Virgil (Aen. vii. 208),
‘ Threiciamque Samum quae nunc Samothracia fertur.’
Thasos. The rich gold mines of this island had at a very early date
attracted the Phoenicians to its shores. Later on it was colonized by
Ionians from Paros. There was also a Thracian tribe called Saians
settled in the island. The Thasian possessions in the mining districts
on the mainland were a source of enormous wealth, yielding, shortly
before the Persian invasion, as much as from 200 to 300 talents annually
(Herod, vi. 46). It was apparently from the mainland that the Thasians
derived the Babyionic standard of weight, as well as the types of its
earliest money. The Silenos carrying off a struggling nymph is one of
a class of types intimately connected with the orgiastic worship of the
Thracian Eacchus whose oracle stood on the summit of Mt. Pangaeum.
Naked ithyphallic Silenos, kneeling
on one knee and carrying in his
arms a nymph.
Two Dolphins.
Dolphin.
550-465.
163.
Quadripartite incuse square. (Fig. 163.)
Ml Stater, 160-140 grs.
Ml Drachm, 70 grs (max.).
Id. ... Ml Obol, 10 grs. (max.).
Id . . . Ml | Obol, 5 grs. (max.).
In this period of Athenian supremacy in Thasos the same types of the
stater and drachm are in the main adhered to, but there is a steady
decrease in the weight, which, on the later specimens, corresponds with
the Attic or even falls below it. In style many of these later Thasian
staters are admirable as works of art, and quite worthy of the age of
Pheidias. (Fig. 164.)
Circ. b.c. 411-350.
In B.c. 411 Thasos revolted from Athens and received a Lacedae-
Q 2
On an Imperial coin of Hadrian (Mion. 11) the remarkable inscr.
CAMIuuN 0PAKH occurs. Cf. the line in Virgil (Aen. vii. 208),
‘ Threiciamque Samum quae nunc Samothracia fertur.’
Thasos. The rich gold mines of this island had at a very early date
attracted the Phoenicians to its shores. Later on it was colonized by
Ionians from Paros. There was also a Thracian tribe called Saians
settled in the island. The Thasian possessions in the mining districts
on the mainland were a source of enormous wealth, yielding, shortly
before the Persian invasion, as much as from 200 to 300 talents annually
(Herod, vi. 46). It was apparently from the mainland that the Thasians
derived the Babyionic standard of weight, as well as the types of its
earliest money. The Silenos carrying off a struggling nymph is one of
a class of types intimately connected with the orgiastic worship of the
Thracian Eacchus whose oracle stood on the summit of Mt. Pangaeum.
Naked ithyphallic Silenos, kneeling
on one knee and carrying in his
arms a nymph.
Two Dolphins.
Dolphin.
550-465.
163.
Quadripartite incuse square. (Fig. 163.)
Ml Stater, 160-140 grs.
Ml Drachm, 70 grs (max.).
Id. ... Ml Obol, 10 grs. (max.).
Id . . . Ml | Obol, 5 grs. (max.).
In this period of Athenian supremacy in Thasos the same types of the
stater and drachm are in the main adhered to, but there is a steady
decrease in the weight, which, on the later specimens, corresponds with
the Attic or even falls below it. In style many of these later Thasian
staters are admirable as works of art, and quite worthy of the age of
Pheidias. (Fig. 164.)
Circ. b.c. 411-350.
In B.c. 411 Thasos revolted from Athens and received a Lacedae-
Q 2