Geta Augusta Traiana in Thrace Ancient Roman Coin Artemis Diana Cult i49386

Item: i49386

 Authentic Ancient 

Coin of:

Geta
– Roman Caesar: 198-209 A.D. –
Roman Emperor
: 209-211 A.D. ––
Bronze 17mm (3.25 grams) of

Augusta Traiana in

Thrace 
Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right.
AVΓOVCTHC TPAIANHC,

Artemis (Diana) 
advancing right holding bow and
pulling out arrow from quiver.

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Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek 
deities. Some scholars believe that the name, and indeed the goddess herself, 
was originally pre-Greek. Homer refers to her as Artemis Agrotera,
Potnia Theron
< Artemis of the wildland, 
Mistress of Animals”. In the classical period of
Greek mythology
, Artemis (Greek: 
(nominative)
Ἄρτεμις, (genitive)
Ἀρτέμιδος) was often 
described as the daughter of

Zeus and Leto
, and the twin sister of
Apollo
. She was the Hellenic goddess of the 
hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and young girls, bringing 
and relieving disease in women; she often was depicted as a huntress carrying a 
bow and arrows. The deer
and the
cypress
were sacred to her. In later 
Hellenistic times, she even assumed the ancient role of
Eileithyia
in aiding childbirth.

Artemis later became identified with
Selene
, a
Titaness
who was a Greek moon goddess, 
sometimes depicted with a crescent moon above her head. She was also identified 
with the Roman goddess
Diana
, with the
Etruscan
goddess
Artume
, and with the Greek or
Carian
goddess
Hecate
.

Stara Zagora is considered one of the oldest settlements in Bulgaria. It was 
founded by the
Thracians
under the name Beroe (meaning
iron) about
6th
–5th 
century BCE, with the
Neolithic
dwellings and the copper mine near 
the city being the oldest preserved ones in
Europe
. The area has been a mining region since 
antiquity.

A city was founded by
Phillip II of Macedon
at 342 BC. Under the
Roman Empire
, the town was renamed to Ulpia 
Augusta Traiana in honour of emperor
Trajan
.

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.