Marcus Wilson | Classics and Ancient History | Faculty of Arts Staff | The University of Auckland. Ancient coins of Euboea. [British Museum Catalogue of Greek Coins, Central Greece—by B. V. Head, 1884. E. Curtius, Hermes, vol. x, 1876, p. 215 sqq. Imhoof-Blumer, Monatsbericht d. k. Akad. d. Wissensch., Berlin 1881. That an island of the extent and importance of Euboea should have had no native currency during the period of her greatest colonizing and commercial activity is a proposition hardly to be entertained.
Euboea, also, in very early times had already given her name to one of the most widely used standards for weighing the precious metals; a remarkable fact, and one which is alone sufficient to warrant us in supposing that Euboea would be one of the starting-points of the art of coining on the western side of the Aegean Sea. Occur on any other class of archaic coins, as may be seen at a glance by comparing Pl. . ; Wheel of four spokes Θ; Scarabaeus; Gorgoneion; Bull’s head to front. Carystus. »M'berg»WW»SNG B»ANS B.C. 550-445 and 411-336. For the Cow and calf see Corcyra, p. 326. Chalcis.
Before B.C. 507.
The Pennsylvania Gazette: Roman Glass. Roman News and Archeology. Evidence from Hittite Records for the Trojan War. The Hittites were a powerful civilization that controlled most of Anatolia in the second millennium B.C. Their language, written in cuneiform script on clay tablets, was recovered and deciphered in the first decades of the twentieth century, but scholars are still wrestling with the problem of placing the cities and countries named in their ancient texts onto modern maps.
The kingdom of Arzawa, located roughly in western Anatolia, was a threat to the Hittites throughout most of the fourteenth century B.C. but toward the end of that period was decisively defeated and broken up into provinces. The treaties concluded with the vassal rulers of these provinces are known among the Hittite texts. Recent inscription readings have allowed scholars to locate the two main Arzawa lands in the central-west part of Turkey, extending from the inland plateau to the coast.
J.D. Hawkins is professor of ancient Anatolian languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Share. THEOI GREEK MYTHOLOGY, Exploring Mythology & the Greek Gods in Classical Literature & Art.