MOPSOS in CILICIA 2-1stCenBC Zeus Lit Altar Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i41643
MOPSOS in CILICIA 2-1stCenBC Zeus Lit Altar Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i41643
MOPSOS in CILICIA 2-1stCenBC Zeus Lit Altar Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i41643

MOPSOS in CILICIA 2-1stCenBC Zeus Lit Altar Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i41643

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Authentic Ancient

Coin of:

Greek city of Mopsos in Cilicia
Bronze 17mm (5.97 grams) 2nd-1st Century B.C.
Reference: Levante 1304; Paris 1938; Sear -, BMC –
Laureate head of Zeus right, dotted border.
ΣΕΛΕVΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΩΙ ΠVΡΑΜΩΙ, Lighted circular
altar, with three legs; monogram in left and right field.

Situated on the river Pyramos,
north-east of Mallos, the city was named after the brother of Amphilochos.
During the reign of Antiochos IV, 175-164 B.C., it bore the name of Seleukeia.

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provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of

Authenticity.

 

In the
ancient Greek

religion, Zeus was the
“Father of Gods and men” (πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν
τε)
who ruled the Olympians of
Mount Olympus

as a father ruled the family. He was the
god of sky

and
thunder

in
Greek mythology
.
His
Roman

counterpart is
Jupiter

and
Etruscan

counterpart is Tinia
.The Jupiter de Smyrne, discovered in Smyrna in 1680[1]

Zeus was the child of
Cronus

and
Rhea
,
and the youngest of his siblings. In most traditions he was married to

Hera, although, at the
oracle of Dodona
,
his consort was
Dione
:
according to the Iliad
,
he is the father of
Aphrodite

by Dione. He is known for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many godly and
heroic offspring, including
Athena
,
Apollo

and Artemis
,
Hermes
,
Persephone

(by Demeter
),
Dionysus
,
Perseus
,
Heracles
,
Helen of Troy
,
Minos
,
and the Muses

(by Mnemosyne
);
by Hera, he is usually said to have fathered

Ares,
Hebe

and Hephaestus
.

Walter Burkert
points out in his book, Greek Religion, “Even the gods who are not his
natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence.”
For the Greeks, he was the
King of the Gods
,
who oversaw the universe. As
Pausanias

observed, “That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men”. In
Hesiod’s Theogony

Zeus assigns the various gods their roles. In the Homeric Hymns he is
referred to as the chieftain of the gods.

His symbols are the
thunderbolt
,
eagle
,
bull
,
and oak
.
In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical “cloud-gatherer”
also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the
Ancient Near East
,
such as the

scepter

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