Beschreibung
Erhaltung: vf- | Abkürzungen
Katalognummer: Elaia
Durchmesser: 10,00 mm
weight 0,87gr. | silver Ø 10mm.
obv. Head of Athena to left, wearing a crested Athenian helmet
rev. E A within olive wreath
Elaia was an ancient Greek city of Aeolis, probably founded by colonist from Athens. It was the port of Pergamum. The name of Elaia occurs in the history of the kings of Pergamum. According to Strabo, from Livius (xxxv. 13), travellers who would reach Pergamum from the sea, would land at Elaia. One of the passages of Livius shows that there was a small hill (tumulus) near Elaia, and that the town was in a plain and walled. Elaea was damaged by an earthquake in the reign of Trajan, at the same time that Pitane suffered. It was a member of the Delian League.
The exact site of Elaea seems to be uncertain. William Martin Leake, in his map, fixes it at a place marked Kliseli but according to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, it was located near the modern town of Zeytindağ, İzmir Province, Turkey.
BMC- (cf. 2) SNG.Copenhagen- McClean- | SNG.Tübingen- | Sear- |
SNG.von Aulock- | Weber collection 5544 | SNG.Kayhan- (cf. 81)
Babelon, Traité, pl.CLVIII,33 | Slg.Klein- | SNG.München 383var. RR
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