SOLOI in CILICIA 100BC Artemis Cornucopia Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i47342

Item: i47342

Authentic Ancient

Coin of:

Greek city of

Bronze 18mm (4.17 grams) Struck circa 100-30 B.C.
Reference: SNG France 1210; SNG Levante 865 var. (controls)
Head of Artemis right, wearing stephane.
ΣOΛEΩN, Double cornucopia; ΔI
to left.

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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

GreekSolii:
Σόλοι, Soloi) was an ancient city
and port in Cilicia
, in present day
Turkey
, a part of
Mezitli
municipality which in turn is a part of
Greater Mersin
. It was a colony of
Rhodes
, founded c. 700 BC. Soli was destroyed
in the 1st century BC, and rebuilt by
Pompey the Great
. Thereafter, it was called
Pompeiopolis (Πομπηιούπολις), not to be confused with the
Pompeiopolis
in
Paphlagonia
. The word
solecism
is derived from Soli, since the
dialect of Greek spoken there was considered by Athenians to be a corrupted form
of Attic Greek
.

Charles Robert Cockrell visited the site of ‘Pompeiopolis’ in June 1813.
Examination of his travel intinery and the archaeological remains present along
the coastline of southern Turkey, suggests that Soloi-Pompeiopolis is located at
Elaiussa-Sebaste.

The geographical location of the ancient city Soli of
Cilicia in a modern map of Turkey. The red dot shows the position of
Mersin
. At the present scale, it
coincides with the position of Soli which is slightly on the west.

Notable natives

• Aratus of Soli
  (c. 315 BC/310 BC – c. 240
  BC) was a Greek

  didactic

  poet
  .

• Chrysippus of Soli
  (c. 279 BC – c. 206 BC)
  was a
  Greek

  Stoic

  philosopher
  .