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            [Image]              CRETE: Cydonia. Ca. 100-80 BC. AR “stephanephoric”
    (i.e. Keywords, Catalog      tetradrachm.
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                                 CRETE. Cydonia. Ca. 100–80 BC. AR “stephanephoric”
                                 tetradrachm (14.18 gm). Head of Artemis right, hair rolled
      Mail Bid Home Page         around band, bow and quiver over shoulder, the former
                                 ornamented with goat’s head, ?—A / ?—I / ?—N in field
                                 flanking head / KY—? / ? / NIA—?? / ?,  Artemis huntress
                                 facing, head left, wearing short tunic and boots, holding
                                 long torch in left hand, hound seated right sniffing her
                                 right hand, wreath border. Cf. Svoronos 59, pl. x, 1 (same
                                 obverse die, ethnic divided differently). Very rare and of
                                 fine style. Surface roughness, otherwise nearly extremely
                                 fine

                                 Ex Behague Collection 137.

                                 The types of this tetradrachm offer canonical
                                 representations of Artemis huntress, suggesting that by the
                                 first century BC Dictynna (Britomartis) was not merely
                                 assimilated to Artemis, but completely submerged in her.

                                 Estimated Value: $ 3,750

 ... Lot was unsold.
 


From the Freeman & Sear Mail Bid Sale 13, Closed August 25th, 2006.

Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear, www.freemanandsear.com.