MADE TO ORDER: Swan and Winged male - Cilicia Stater - 400 BC
This listing is made to order, meaning I will make the pendant and ship within three weeks. Visit this page and download the Custom Order guide to all setting options (both in silver and gold).
The coin measures about 20 mm diameter and weighs 10 grams (see picture with a US quarter for scale).
Cilicia, Mallos - Silver Stater
Obverse: winged male figure advancing right, holding solar disk in both hands
Reverse: swan standing left; barley grain to left (only a trace visible), ankh to right; all in dotted incuse square within shallow incuse square
Circa 440-390 BC
Greek legend credited the establishment of Mallus to two Argive brothers named Amphilochus and Mopsus. Amphilochus is variously described as the king and seer who was the son of Amphiaraus and the brother of Alcmaeon; Alcmaeon's son; or, in Strabo, either of these figures understood as a demigod son of Apollo. Both Amphiaraus's son and Alcmaeon's son were in the generations said to have witnessed the Trojan War. Amphilochus and Mopsus were said to have left that conflict and founded Mallus and some other oracles and towns before either returning to Argos or killing one another. Visitors to the oracle, which continued as late as Plutarch, slept overnight in the temple and their dreams were considered to be the gods' answer to their questions.
Alexander the Great erected a bridge over the Pyramus and visited Mallus during his conquest of the region, and at Mallus he performed sacrifices to Amphilochus. Alexander also exempted the town from paying taxes, because it was a colony of the Argives, and he himself claimed to have sprung from Argos, being one of the descendants of Heracles
This listing is made to order, meaning I will make the pendant and ship within three weeks. Visit this page and download the Custom Order guide to all setting options (both in silver and gold).
The coin measures about 20 mm diameter and weighs 10 grams (see picture with a US quarter for scale).
Cilicia, Mallos - Silver Stater
Obverse: winged male figure advancing right, holding solar disk in both hands
Reverse: swan standing left; barley grain to left (only a trace visible), ankh to right; all in dotted incuse square within shallow incuse square
Circa 440-390 BC
Greek legend credited the establishment of Mallus to two Argive brothers named Amphilochus and Mopsus. Amphilochus is variously described as the king and seer who was the son of Amphiaraus and the brother of Alcmaeon; Alcmaeon's son; or, in Strabo, either of these figures understood as a demigod son of Apollo. Both Amphiaraus's son and Alcmaeon's son were in the generations said to have witnessed the Trojan War. Amphilochus and Mopsus were said to have left that conflict and founded Mallus and some other oracles and towns before either returning to Argos or killing one another. Visitors to the oracle, which continued as late as Plutarch, slept overnight in the temple and their dreams were considered to be the gods' answer to their questions.
Alexander the Great erected a bridge over the Pyramus and visited Mallus during his conquest of the region, and at Mallus he performed sacrifices to Amphilochus. Alexander also exempted the town from paying taxes, because it was a colony of the Argives, and he himself claimed to have sprung from Argos, being one of the descendants of Heracles
This listing is made to order, meaning I will make the pendant and ship within three weeks. Visit this page and download the Custom Order guide to all setting options (both in silver and gold).
The coin measures about 20 mm diameter and weighs 10 grams (see picture with a US quarter for scale).
Cilicia, Mallos - Silver Stater
Obverse: winged male figure advancing right, holding solar disk in both hands
Reverse: swan standing left; barley grain to left (only a trace visible), ankh to right; all in dotted incuse square within shallow incuse square
Circa 440-390 BC
Greek legend credited the establishment of Mallus to two Argive brothers named Amphilochus and Mopsus. Amphilochus is variously described as the king and seer who was the son of Amphiaraus and the brother of Alcmaeon; Alcmaeon's son; or, in Strabo, either of these figures understood as a demigod son of Apollo. Both Amphiaraus's son and Alcmaeon's son were in the generations said to have witnessed the Trojan War. Amphilochus and Mopsus were said to have left that conflict and founded Mallus and some other oracles and towns before either returning to Argos or killing one another. Visitors to the oracle, which continued as late as Plutarch, slept overnight in the temple and their dreams were considered to be the gods' answer to their questions.
Alexander the Great erected a bridge over the Pyramus and visited Mallus during his conquest of the region, and at Mallus he performed sacrifices to Amphilochus. Alexander also exempted the town from paying taxes, because it was a colony of the Argives, and he himself claimed to have sprung from Argos, being one of the descendants of Heracles
