ADRAMYTION in MYSIA 350BC Zeus Eagle Genuine Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i52415

Item: i52415

Authentic Ancient Coin of:

Greek city of
Adramytion
in
Mysia

Bronze 12mm (1.97 grams) Struck circa 350  B.C.
Reference: Sear 3803; Babelon,pl.170,15
Head of Zeus three-quarter face to right.
ΑΔΡΑM above eagle standing left on altar, wings
closed.

A coastal town situated
north-west of Pergamon, Adramytteion is said to have been founded by Adramys,
brother of King Kroisos of Lydia.

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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
.

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
.

As
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
.
Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing,
striding forward, with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated
in majesty.

Edremit is a district in
Balıkesir Province
,
Turkey
, as well as the central city of that
district, on the west coast of
Turkey
, not far from the
Greek
island
Lesbos
. It is situated at the tip of the gulf
with the same name (Gulf
of Edremit), with its town center a few kilometers inland, and is an
important center of trade, along with the other towns that are situated on the
same gulf (namely Ayvalık
,
Gömeç
,
Burhaniye
and
Havran
). It is also one of the largest district
centers of Balıkesir Province.

Coordinates:

39°35′N
27°01′E

The
Greek
name for Edremit is Adramyttion (Άδραμύττιον)
and the Latin
name is Adramyttium, mentioned in
the New Testament
(Acts 27:2), as a city of
Asia Minor
on the coast of
Mysia
, which was called
Aeolis
in classical antiquity. The ship in
which
Apostle Paul
embarked at
Caesarea
belonged to this city (Acts 27:2). He
was conveyed in it only to

Myra, in Lycia
, whence he sailed in an Alexandrian ship
to Italy
. It was a rare thing for a ship to sail
from any port of Judea
direct for Italy. In the 19th century,
the name Adramyti was used. However the ancient city was not Edremit itself ; it
is in Ören, Burhaniye
.

Edremit’s economy relies largely on the production of olives, as well as on
tourism.
Kaz Dağı
National Park, extending around the
ancient Mount Ida
(mentioned in
Homer
‘s epic poems such as the
Iliad
), is situated within the boundaries of
Edremit district and is an important tourist attraction with its natural scenery
and a number of picturesque small villages around it. In ethno-cultural terms,
the population of Edremit is a mixture of
Balkan Turks
, descendants of immigrants from
Aegean Islands
, some
Circassians
, as well as native
Tahtacı

Turkmens
, who pursue their own traditions and
life-style to this day. A private museum of ethnography in the village of
Tahtakuşlar is one of the rare institutions in Turkey focusing on Tahtacı
culture. The district of Edremit, especially around Kazdağı, is largely covered
with forests.