Coins of Elaia in Aiolis in the Collection of Bergama Museum
Abstract
Elaia, an Aeolian city, is called as “a satellite city of Pergamum”. It served as a sheltered port both for the Pergamene fleet and merchantmen and lived its glorious days under the Attalids. With the foundation of the Province of Asia by the Romans Elaia came under the Roman rule. The following catalogue contains 160 Elaian coins; 5 of them from the Kuvay-ı Milliye Museum in Balıkesir cat. nos. K1-K5 . Most of the coins in the collection of Bergama Museum date to the Classical and Hellenistic periods cat. nos. 1-139 and some date to the Roman Imperial period cat. nos. 140-155 . Majority of the Classical and Hellenistic coins bears the type of head of Athena / corn grain within olive wreath. Roman provincial coins range from the time of Nero to Julia Domna. We hope that the present catalogue will contribute to form a type-repertoire of the Elaian coins and to solve the attribution problems of some types which sometimes are attributed to Elaios in Thracian Chersonesos.
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