FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS

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A BEAUTIFUL BRONZE COIN OF ANCIENT ETENNA PISIDIA FROM THE 1ST CENTURY BC .

This coin depicts the city's foundation myth. A young girl, going to fetch water, was attacked by a snake. She was rescued by two young men but they could not kill the snake because it was a god. The Etenna people descended from the union of the snake and the girl.

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THE SIZE IS 18.2 MM AND 2.93 GRAMS.

SNG Cop 146-7, Sear 5458

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OBVERSE – Nymph advancing right, holding coiled serpent

REVERSE – E-T, sickle-shaped (curved) knife

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ETENNA PISIDIA

There are not too many ancient records regarding Etenna. Polybios records that Etenna in 218 BC furnished 8000 troops to Garsyenis; he speaks of it as lying in the Pisidian mountain country above Side. The bronze coins of Etenna extend from the 1st century BC to the 3rd century AD.

The ruins of Etenna occupy the slopes of a steep hill some 250 m high, N of the village of Sirt. The ring wall, of irregular ashlar of good quality, is standing in part; the south slope, less steep than the others, is covered with overgrown remains of buildings for the most part unidentifiable. On the north slope are numerous rock-cut tombs, said to number 52 in all. Two statues of women, about life-size, are lying on the hillside.

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