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Æ24 - Commodus ΤΡοΙΖΗΝΙωΝ
| Issuer | Troezen (Achaea) |
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| Year | 177-192 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | The nude hero Theseus strides dynamically to the right, brandishing a club raised in his right hand while his left hand seizes the horn of the Minotaur, which falls or kneels to the right in defeat. The composition captures the climactic moment of the mythological combat, a subject of particular local significance given Troezen's legendary associations with Theseus. The civic ethnic legend of the Troezenians is inscribed in the field. The rendering is characteristic of the vigorous, if provincially executed, figural style of Achaean civic bronzes under Commodus. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΤΡοΙΖΗΝΙωΝ (Translation: of the Troezenians) |
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