Gambrion in Mysia 4th cent BC Ancient Greek Coin APOLLO STAR i28146

Greek city of Gambrion (Gambria) in Mysia (Western Asia
Minor)
Bronze 16mm (3.79 grams) Struck 4th-3rd Century B.C.
Reference: Sear 3871; B.M.C. 15.62,2-3
Laureate head of Apollo right.
Large star; Γ-A-M between four of the rays.

An inland town situated east of
Pergamon.

Gambrion is an ancient city near
Kınık
and
Bergama
in
İzmir
province of
Turkey
in western
Anatolia
.

It is on a hill named
Hisarlık
in
Bakırçay
(ancient
Kaikos
) valley and very close to modern town of
Poyracık
.

The name of Gambrion is seen first in the book of
Anabasis
of
Xenofon
which gives knowledge about the region
in 399 BC. At that time the ruler of the city was

Gorgion

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There was a star with twelve rays on the electron money of Gambrion.

In
Greek
and
Roman mythology
, Apollo
,
is one of the most important and diverse of the
Olympian deities
. The ideal of the
kouros
(a
beardless youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the
sun; truth and prophecy;
archery
;
medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more. Apollo is the son
of Zeus
and
Leto, and has a
twin
sister, the chaste huntress
Artemis
.
Apollo is known in Greek-influenced
Etruscan mythology
as Apulu. Apollo was worshiped in both
ancient Greek
and
Roman religion
, as well as in the modern
Greco
–Roman
Neopaganism
.

As the patron of Delphi
(Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an
oracular
god — the prophetic deity of the
Delphic Oracle
.
Medicine and healing were associated with Apollo, whether through the god
himself or mediated through his son
Asclepius
,
yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly
plague
as well as one who had the ability to cure. Amongst the god’s
custodial charges, Apollo became associated with dominion over
colonists
, and as the patron defender of herds and flocks. As the leader of
the Muses
(Apollon
Musagetes) and director of their choir, Apollo functioned as the patron god
of music and poetry
.
Hermes
created
the lyre
for him,
and the instrument became a common
attribute
of Apollo. Hymns sung to Apollo were called
paeans
.

In Hellenistic times, especially during the third century BCE, as Apollo
Helios he became identified among Greeks with
Helios
,
god of
the sun
, and his sister Artemis similarly equated with
Selene
,
goddess
of the moon
.
In Latin texts, on the other hand, Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to
find any conflation of Apollo with
Sol
among the
Augustan poets
of the first century, not even in the conjurations of
Aeneas
and
Latinus
in
Aeneid
XII
(161–215).
Apollo and Helios/Sol remained separate beings in literary and mythological
texts until the third century CE.