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ELIS.
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probable that they also circulated as money. It was no unusual thing
for wealthy individuals to undertake, on behalf of their native cities, the
entire expenses of religious festivals, games, dedications of temples, or
other solemnities, in return for municipal honours of various kinds. The
sums paid into the local exchequer by such public benefactors, when
issued in the form of coin, usually bore the name of the donor in the
nominative case, together with his honorary title and the verb avldtjue,
followed by the name of the city or province in the dative or genitive.
Such dedicatory pieces are not uncommon in Asia Minor, but in
Europe they are very rarely met with.
The following examples were struck at Corinth by Hostilius Marcellus,
the priest of the worship of the deified Antinous, and by him dedicated
to the Achaeans and Corinthians :—
OCTIAIOC MAPKEAAOC 0 IEPEYC TOY ANTlNOOY Bust of
Antinous.
Rev., TOIC AXAIOIC ANE0HKEN Antinous leaning on terminal figure,
or as Bellerophon taming Pegasos (Mion., ii. 160. 97, 98).
Another, but with KOPlNOinNANEOHKEN.
Rev. Type, Helios in biga (Mion., ii. 180. 239).
ELIS.
Circ. B.c. 480-421.
Figs. 226, 227.
The beautiful silver coins of Elis, of the Aeginetic standard, form a
series, which, for the variety of treatment, and the high artistic ability
which it evinces, is excelled by no other class of coins in European Greece.
There are no coins of Elis which can be said to belong to the period of
archaic art before the Persian wars ; but from about B. c. 480 until Elis
became dependent upon Macedon after the Lamian war, B.c. 322, the
silver staters of Elis form an almost unbroken series, which Professor
Gardner, in his able essay on the coins of Elis {Num. Citron., 1879,
p. 221 sqq.), has arranged in fifteen periods, corresponding with the
political history of the city. In the present work a more general
classification is all that need be attempted.
The whole land of Elis was sacred to the Olympian Zeus, and the
symbols of this god, the Thunder-bolt, and the Eagle with a serpent, a hare,
or other animal in his claws, the well-known omen .of victory sent by
Zeus, Atos repay atyioyoio (II., xii. 211), form the constant types of the
coins of Elis. from.about b.c. 480-421 (Figs. 226-229). Other varieties
exhibit Nike in various attitudes, running to crown a victor in the games,
or seated on a cippus, or standing with the sacred fillet in her hand; oi'
again, the. Olympian Zeus himself, enthroned, with his eagle flying beside
him, or wielding the thunder-bolt.
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probable that they also circulated as money. It was no unusual thing
for wealthy individuals to undertake, on behalf of their native cities, the
entire expenses of religious festivals, games, dedications of temples, or
other solemnities, in return for municipal honours of various kinds. The
sums paid into the local exchequer by such public benefactors, when
issued in the form of coin, usually bore the name of the donor in the
nominative case, together with his honorary title and the verb avldtjue,
followed by the name of the city or province in the dative or genitive.
Such dedicatory pieces are not uncommon in Asia Minor, but in
Europe they are very rarely met with.
The following examples were struck at Corinth by Hostilius Marcellus,
the priest of the worship of the deified Antinous, and by him dedicated
to the Achaeans and Corinthians :—
OCTIAIOC MAPKEAAOC 0 IEPEYC TOY ANTlNOOY Bust of
Antinous.
Rev., TOIC AXAIOIC ANE0HKEN Antinous leaning on terminal figure,
or as Bellerophon taming Pegasos (Mion., ii. 160. 97, 98).
Another, but with KOPlNOinNANEOHKEN.
Rev. Type, Helios in biga (Mion., ii. 180. 239).
ELIS.
Circ. B.c. 480-421.
Figs. 226, 227.
The beautiful silver coins of Elis, of the Aeginetic standard, form a
series, which, for the variety of treatment, and the high artistic ability
which it evinces, is excelled by no other class of coins in European Greece.
There are no coins of Elis which can be said to belong to the period of
archaic art before the Persian wars ; but from about B. c. 480 until Elis
became dependent upon Macedon after the Lamian war, B.c. 322, the
silver staters of Elis form an almost unbroken series, which Professor
Gardner, in his able essay on the coins of Elis {Num. Citron., 1879,
p. 221 sqq.), has arranged in fifteen periods, corresponding with the
political history of the city. In the present work a more general
classification is all that need be attempted.
The whole land of Elis was sacred to the Olympian Zeus, and the
symbols of this god, the Thunder-bolt, and the Eagle with a serpent, a hare,
or other animal in his claws, the well-known omen .of victory sent by
Zeus, Atos repay atyioyoio (II., xii. 211), form the constant types of the
coins of Elis. from.about b.c. 480-421 (Figs. 226-229). Other varieties
exhibit Nike in various attitudes, running to crown a victor in the games,
or seated on a cippus, or standing with the sacred fillet in her hand; oi'
again, the. Olympian Zeus himself, enthroned, with his eagle flying beside
him, or wielding the thunder-bolt.
A a