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ARG OLIS.
smaller coins consisted of Attic tetrobols (or Aeginetic triobols) as
follows
Fore-part of wolf.
Large A in incuse square with adjunct
symbol and letters or magistrates’
names at full length.
JR Attic Tetrob.
Wolfs head.
Id.JR Aeginetic f Ob.
It is to this period that the autonomous bronze money of Argos for the
most part belongs, though some of it may be earlier.
Head of Apollo.
Head of Hera Argeia.
Head of wolf.
Id., or head of Hera.
Head of Apollo.
Fore-part of wolf.
Wolf tE .65
Athena in fighting attitude . 2E -65
A (various symbols) . . . . dE -45
Quiver, (s?/m6oZs) 3, wolfs head, hel¬
met, trident, prow, etc. . . JE -6g
Tripod (symbol) S . . . . JE -65
H P A K A EIT 0 Y Fore-part of bull . .
Al -65
This last type refers to the battle of the wolf and the bull, which took
place while Danaos and Gelanor were contending for the sovereignty of
Argolis. The omen was interpreted as deciding the contest in favour
of Danaos, who, in consequence, erected a temple in honour of Apollo
Lyldos.
Circ. b.c. 229-146.
For coins of this period, see Achaean League, p. 352.
Imperial Times.
Trajan to Salonina. Inscr., APTEIflN or NEMEI A, NEMEIA HPAIA, or
HP AI A, without the ethnic, in allusion to the Nemean and Heraean
games. The types are numerous and of considerable interest. The
following are some of the more important:—Herakles strangling the
Nemean lion. Opheltes, Hypsipyle, and the serpent. Herakles resting
at the foot of Mount Apesas. The three Charites. Hera seated with
Hebe before her and a peacock between them. Perseus with Gorgon’s
head, sometimes resting his shield upon a cippus. Apollo variously
represented. Zeus seated or standing. Tyche standing. Hermes
standing. Kleobis and Biton drawing their mother in a chariot (Paus.,
ii. 20, 3). Asklepios. Leto with small figure, Chloris, beside her (Paus.,
ii. 21, 9). Demeter standing. Eileithuia holding in each hand a torch,
one raised and one lowered. Hekate triformis. Palladium, sometimes
in temple on Acropolis. Diomedes carrying off the Palladium. Dionysos.
Danae receiving the golden shower. Ares. Aphrodite (?) standing.
Poseidon pursuing Amymone. Leto (?) carrying the infant Meliboea(?).
Nemesis. Isis, etc. Nearly all these types are figured in Imhoof and
Gardner’s Numismatic Commentary on Pausanias, from which the above list
is taken.
Cleonae, a small town on the road from Corinth to Argos, about
twenty miles north of the latter. The Nemean games were celebrated
in its territory. At Cleonae was a temple of Herakles on the spot
where he slew Eurytos (Diod., iv. 33).
ARG OLIS.
smaller coins consisted of Attic tetrobols (or Aeginetic triobols) as
follows
Fore-part of wolf.
Large A in incuse square with adjunct
symbol and letters or magistrates’
names at full length.
JR Attic Tetrob.
Wolfs head.
Id.JR Aeginetic f Ob.
It is to this period that the autonomous bronze money of Argos for the
most part belongs, though some of it may be earlier.
Head of Apollo.
Head of Hera Argeia.
Head of wolf.
Id., or head of Hera.
Head of Apollo.
Fore-part of wolf.
Wolf tE .65
Athena in fighting attitude . 2E -65
A (various symbols) . . . . dE -45
Quiver, (s?/m6oZs) 3, wolfs head, hel¬
met, trident, prow, etc. . . JE -6g
Tripod (symbol) S . . . . JE -65
H P A K A EIT 0 Y Fore-part of bull . .
Al -65
This last type refers to the battle of the wolf and the bull, which took
place while Danaos and Gelanor were contending for the sovereignty of
Argolis. The omen was interpreted as deciding the contest in favour
of Danaos, who, in consequence, erected a temple in honour of Apollo
Lyldos.
Circ. b.c. 229-146.
For coins of this period, see Achaean League, p. 352.
Imperial Times.
Trajan to Salonina. Inscr., APTEIflN or NEMEI A, NEMEIA HPAIA, or
HP AI A, without the ethnic, in allusion to the Nemean and Heraean
games. The types are numerous and of considerable interest. The
following are some of the more important:—Herakles strangling the
Nemean lion. Opheltes, Hypsipyle, and the serpent. Herakles resting
at the foot of Mount Apesas. The three Charites. Hera seated with
Hebe before her and a peacock between them. Perseus with Gorgon’s
head, sometimes resting his shield upon a cippus. Apollo variously
represented. Zeus seated or standing. Tyche standing. Hermes
standing. Kleobis and Biton drawing their mother in a chariot (Paus.,
ii. 20, 3). Asklepios. Leto with small figure, Chloris, beside her (Paus.,
ii. 21, 9). Demeter standing. Eileithuia holding in each hand a torch,
one raised and one lowered. Hekate triformis. Palladium, sometimes
in temple on Acropolis. Diomedes carrying off the Palladium. Dionysos.
Danae receiving the golden shower. Ares. Aphrodite (?) standing.
Poseidon pursuing Amymone. Leto (?) carrying the infant Meliboea(?).
Nemesis. Isis, etc. Nearly all these types are figured in Imhoof and
Gardner’s Numismatic Commentary on Pausanias, from which the above list
is taken.
Cleonae, a small town on the road from Corinth to Argos, about
twenty miles north of the latter. The Nemean games were celebrated
in its territory. At Cleonae was a temple of Herakles on the spot
where he slew Eurytos (Diod., iv. 33).