GETA 198AD Mylasa in Caria STATUE of ZEUS Labraundos in TEMPLE Roman Coin i56044

Item: i56044

Authentic Ancient 

Coin of:

Roman Emperor: 209-211 A.D. –
Bronze 33mm (16.85 grams)

mint of
Mylasa in Caria
Reference: Akarca 90; BMC 38; SNG Copenhagen 437; SNG von Aulock 2630
ΠO CEΠTIMIOC ΓETA C KAIC, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right.
MYΛA-CEΩN, Facing cult statue of Zeus Labraundos within tetrastyle temple with 
wreath in pediment.

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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.

Milas (ancient Mylasa Μύλασα) is an 
ancient city and the seat of the district of the same name in
Muğla Province
in southwestern
Turkey
. The city commands a region with an 
active economy, and the region is very rich in history and its remains, the 
whole territory of Milas district containing a remarkable twenty-seven
archaeological
sites of note. The city was the 
first capital of ancient
Caria
and of the
Anatolian beylik
of
Menteşe
in
medieval
times.

The centre of Milas presents the overall characteristics of a 
well-grown city focused on
agricultural
and
aquacultural
processing, related industrial 
activities, services, transportation (particularly since the opening of
Milas-Bodrum Airport
),
tourism
and culture. The center is at a 
distance of about twenty km from the coast and is actually closer to the airport 
than Bodrum
itself, with many late arrival 
passengers of the high season increasingly opting to stay in Milas rather than 
in Bodrum where accommodation is likely to be difficult to find.

Milas district covers a total area of 2167 km2 and this area 
follows a total coastline length of 150 km, both to the north-west in the
Gulf of Güllük
and to the south along the
Gulf of Gökova
, and to these should be added 
the shores of Lake Bafa
in the north divided between the 
district area of Milas and that of
Aydın
district of

Söke.

Along with the province seat of
Muğla
and the province’s southernmost district 
of Fethiye
, Milas is among the prominent 
settlements of south-west Turkey, these three centers being on a par with each 
other in terms of all-year population and the area their depending districts 
cover. Five townships which have their own municipalities and a total of 114 
villages depend Milas, distinguishing the district with a record number of 
dependent settlements for a very wide surrounding region. Milas center is 
situated on a fertile plain at the foot of Mount Sodra on and around which 
sizable quarries of the white
marble
are found and have been used since very 
ancient times.

Milas’s political colour has been centre-left for the last 
decade.

The city’s earliest historical mention is at the beginning of the 7th century 
BC, when a Carian
leader from Mylasa by name Arselis is 
recorded to have helped
Gyges of Lydia
in his contest for the
Lydian
throne. The same episode is at the 
origin of the accounts surrounding the beginning of the cult for and the 
erection of the statue of Labrandean Zeus in the neighboring city of
Labranda
, held sacred by peoples across western 
Anatolia, with the statue holding the
labrys
brought over by Arselis from
Lydia
. Labrandean Zeus (sometimes also named 
“Zeus Stratios”) was one of the three deities proper to Mylasa, all named 
Zeus but each bearing indigenous characteristics. Of these, the cult of Zeus 
Carius (Carian Zeus) was also notable in being exclusively reserved, 
aside from the Carians, to their Lydian and
Mysian
kinsmen. One of the finest temples was 
also the one dedicated to Zeus Osogoa (originally, just Osogoa), 
traceable to times when the Carians had been a maritime folk and which recalled 
to
Pausanias
the
Acropolis of Athens
.

 Persian period

Under
Achaemenid
rule Mylasa was the chief city of 
Caria. A ruler appointed by the
Persian Emperor
(satrap) 
ruled the city in varying degrees of allegiance to the emperor. Between 460-450 
BC, Mylasa was a regionally prominent member of the
Delian League
, like most Carian cities, but the 
Persian rule was restored towards the end of the same century.

 Hecatomnid dynasty

The dynasty named the Hecatomnids, founded by the Carian
Hecatomnus
and continued under his sons and 
daughters were officially
satraps
of the
Persian Empire
. Mylasa was at once their 
hometown and their capital. But especially during the long and striking reign of
Mausolus
, they became virtual rulers of
Caria
and of a sizable surrounding region 
between 377-352 BC. It was during Mausolus’s reign that the capital was moved to
Halicarnassus
, but Mylasa retained its 
importance. Mausolus was the builder of the famous
Mausoleum of Mausolus
. The international term 
“Mausoleum” derives from this Carian ruler.

 Roman period

In 40 BCE Mylasa suffered greaty damage when it was taken by
Labienus
in the
Roman Civil War
. In the Greco-Roman period, 
though the city was contested among the successors of Alexander, it enjoyed a 
season of brilliant prosperity, and the three neighbouring towns of
Euromus
,
Olymos
and
Labranda
were included within its limits. 
Mylasa is frequently mentioned by ancient writers. At the time of Strabo the 
city boasted two remarkable orators, Euthydemos and Hybreas. Various 
inscriptions tell us that the
Phrygian
cults were represented here by the 
worship of Sabazios
; the Egyptian, by that of

Isis and Osiris
. There was also a temple of
Nemesis
. An inscription from Mylasa provided 
one of the few certain data about the life of
Cornelius Tacitus
, identifying him as governor 
of
Asia
in 112-13.

Publius Septimius Geta (March 

7, 189
–December 

26, 211
), 

was a Roman Emperor

co-ruling with his father

Septimius Severus

and his older brother

Caracalla
 

from 209 to his death.

Geta was the younger son of Septimius Severus by his second wife

Julia  

Domna
. Geta was born in

Rome, at a time 

when his father was only a provincial governor at the service of emperor

Commodus
.

Geta was always in a place secondary to his older brother Lucius, the heir 

known as Caracalla. Perhaps due to this, the relations between the two were 

difficult from their early years. Conflicts were constant and often required the 

mediation of their mother. To appease his youngest son, Septimius Severus gave 

Geta the title of Augustus in 209. During the campaign against the 

Britons of the early 3rd century, the imperial propaganda publicized a happy 

family that shared the responsibilities of rule. Caracalla was his father’s 

second in command, Julia Domna the trusted counsellor and Geta had 

administrative and bureaucratic duties. Truth was that the rivalry and antipathy 

between the brothers was far from being improved. 

Joint Emperor

When Septimius Severus died in

Eboracum in the 

beginning of 211, Caracalla and Geta were proclaimed joint emperors and returned 

to Rome.

Regardless, the shared throne was not a success: the brothers argued about 

every decision, from law to political appointments. Later sources speculate 

about the desire of the two of splitting the empire in two halves. By the end of 

the year, the situation was unbearable. Caracalla tried to murder Geta during 

the festival of

Saturnalia
 

without success. Later in December he arranged a meeting with his brother in his 

mother’s apartments, and had him murdered in her arms by

centurions
.

Following Geta’s assassination, Caracalla

damned his memoryy

and ordered his name to be removed from all inscriptions. 

The now sole emperor also took the opportunity to get rid of his political 

enemies, on the grounds of conspiracy with the deceased.

Cassius 

Dio
  

stated that around 20,000 persons of both sexes were killed and/or proscribed 

during this time.