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Apollonia Mordiaion (AD 198-217) AE 32
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Quasi-autonomous, struck under Caracalla, 198-217 AD. AE32 (16.52g). Homonoia between Apollonia and Ilion. AΛEΞANΔPOC KTIC AΠOΛΛΩNIA - T, head of Alexander III the Great as Herakles in lion-skin scalp right / AΠOΛΛΩN - IA.ΛY - IΛ[EΩ]N(sic!), City-goddess of Apollonia, holding cult-statue of Apollo with kithara and plektron, standing right and City-goddess of Ilion, holding cult-statue of Athena with shield and spear, standing left, both in long garment and wearing kalathos, clasping hands over girlanded and burning altar; behind left figure TΩN (for AΠOΛΛΩNIATΩN), K beneath ΛV (for ΛVKΩN); in ex. OMONOIA. Very rare, F+. Hoeft coll.
Apollonia Mordiaion (today Uluborlu) was located near Apameia Cibotus at the river Hippophoras. Its title AΠOΛΛΩNIATΩN ΛVKΩN ΘPAKΩN KOΛΩNΩN suggests that in Imperial times, Lykians and Thracians were settled in Apollonia (HN).
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