bgr_512579 - PAMPHYLIA - PERGE Drachme

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Type : Drachme

Date: an 10

Mint name / Town : Pergé, Pamphylie

Metal : silver

Diameter : 28,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,19 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan court des deux côtés à l’usure très importante, lisible et identifiable

Catalogue references :

GC.5415 var. - BMC.- - SNG France 3/335 var. - Aulock4660

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Artémis à droite avec un carquois sur l’épaule.

Reverse

Reverse description : Artémis debout à gauche, vêtue du chiton, tenant une couronne de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; un cerf dans le champ à gauche.

Reverse legend : [AR]TEMIDOS/ PERGAIA[S]/ I.

Reverse translation : (d’Artémis de Pergé: an 10).

Commentary

Poids léger.Sur cet exemplaire, nous semblons bien avoir un I à l’exergue, comme sur les tétradrachmes.

Historical background

Pamphylia - Perge

(Second century BC)

Perge was an important city of Pamphylia between the rivers and Kestros Katarrhaktes. The city was famous for its temple of Artemis and the cult was rendered to him. Pamphylia and Perge was the subject of fratricidal strife between the Ptolemies and Seleucids. Perge had entered the Egyptian orbit in the first quarter of the third century BC before returning under the Seleucid domination to 253 BC during the reign of Antiochus II (261-246 AC). . Ptolemy III manages to recover in 241 BC But it was no longer part of the Ptolemaic conquest in 221 BC to the beginning of the reign of Ptolemy IV (221-204 AC).. Perge seems to have become a free city, which would explain the use of a new era. Perge have at least recognized the authority of the new Seleucid king, Antiochus III (223-187 BC). After the Battle of Magnesia in 190 BC and the proclamation of liberty cities pamphyliennes the following year by Gnaeus Manlius, Perge was assigned by the Treaty of Apamea (188 BC) to Attalid kingdom of Eumenes II (197-160 BC).