Nomos

Siris, a Achaean colony on the Gulf of Taranto, was violently destroyed around 530 BC by a coalition of neighboring Greek cities — Metapontion, Sybaris, and Kroton — who resented its commercial reach. What survived was absorbed into a new settlement, Pyxos, with the surviving population retaining enough civic identity to strike coinage under the hyphenated authority recorded here. This nomos is therefore not merely early; it postdates a documented act of inter-colonial warfare and reflects a suppressed polis reasserting itself through the one medium that announced legitimate civic existence.