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DOI Artikel:Bodzek, Jarosław: The Satraps of Caria and the Lycians in the Achaemenid Period: Where is the Numismatic Evidence?
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.57341#0017
Tom XIV
Kraków 2019
NOTAE NUMISMATICAE
ZAPISKI NIM1ŻMAHCZNE
JAROSŁAW BODZEK
Jagiellonian University
Institute of Archaeology
The Satraps of Caria and the Lycians
in the Achaemenid Period: Where is
the Numismatic Evidence?1
ABSTRACT: This article attempts to answer the question as to whether
the satraps of Caria engaged in minting activity within the lands of Lycia during
the reign of the Achaemenids. Two monetary issues are taken into consideration.
We know of the first via a unique stater struck in Xanthos and bearing the name of 15
Tissaphemes. An Achaemenid grandee and karanos, he was satrap of Lydia between
413 and 407 and then between 400 and 395 BC, as well as satrap of Caria from
407 to 401 BC. The second issue is sometimes linked to Mausolos and consists
of drachmas, diobols, and hemiobols struck in Xanthos in c. 360 BC. The present
analysis shows that we cannot definitively tie these issues to the activity of these
satraps of Caria and that it is very likely that they should be interpreted differently:
the former should be regarded as an issue of karanos; the latter, as an imitative
issue. The text also briefly mentions the minting activity of other representatives
of the Achaemenid administration.
KEYWORDS: Caria, Lycia, satrap, Mausolus, Tissaphemes
1 The present article is the print version of a lecture delivered at a conference at the Danish Institute in Athens.
Held between January 24 and January 28, 2018, the conference was entitled Karia and the Dodekanese Cultural
interrelations in the south-eastern Aegean c. 500 BC-AD 500.1 wish to express my gratitude to the conference’s
organizers - Birte Poulsen (Aarhus University), Poul Pedersen (University of Southern Denmark), and John Lund
(Aarhus University) - for giving me the opportunity to deliver the lecture. I would also like to thank Dr. Helle
Horsnaes for agreeing to allow me to publish photographs of the coins from the National Museum of Denmark
in Copenhagen. I would additionally like to thank Dr. Koray Konuk for helping me with some of the problems
discussed in the text. Any errors or mistakes that may remain are mine alone.
Kraków 2019
NOTAE NUMISMATICAE
ZAPISKI NIM1ŻMAHCZNE
JAROSŁAW BODZEK
Jagiellonian University
Institute of Archaeology
The Satraps of Caria and the Lycians
in the Achaemenid Period: Where is
the Numismatic Evidence?1
ABSTRACT: This article attempts to answer the question as to whether
the satraps of Caria engaged in minting activity within the lands of Lycia during
the reign of the Achaemenids. Two monetary issues are taken into consideration.
We know of the first via a unique stater struck in Xanthos and bearing the name of 15
Tissaphemes. An Achaemenid grandee and karanos, he was satrap of Lydia between
413 and 407 and then between 400 and 395 BC, as well as satrap of Caria from
407 to 401 BC. The second issue is sometimes linked to Mausolos and consists
of drachmas, diobols, and hemiobols struck in Xanthos in c. 360 BC. The present
analysis shows that we cannot definitively tie these issues to the activity of these
satraps of Caria and that it is very likely that they should be interpreted differently:
the former should be regarded as an issue of karanos; the latter, as an imitative
issue. The text also briefly mentions the minting activity of other representatives
of the Achaemenid administration.
KEYWORDS: Caria, Lycia, satrap, Mausolus, Tissaphemes
1 The present article is the print version of a lecture delivered at a conference at the Danish Institute in Athens.
Held between January 24 and January 28, 2018, the conference was entitled Karia and the Dodekanese Cultural
interrelations in the south-eastern Aegean c. 500 BC-AD 500.1 wish to express my gratitude to the conference’s
organizers - Birte Poulsen (Aarhus University), Poul Pedersen (University of Southern Denmark), and John Lund
(Aarhus University) - for giving me the opportunity to deliver the lecture. I would also like to thank Dr. Helle
Horsnaes for agreeing to allow me to publish photographs of the coins from the National Museum of Denmark
in Copenhagen. I would additionally like to thank Dr. Koray Konuk for helping me with some of the problems
discussed in the text. Any errors or mistakes that may remain are mine alone.