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13130 Click to enlarge photo | EGYPT. Alexandria. Antinous. Died 130. Bronze Drachm (14.33g), RY 19 of Hadrian = 135/6. ???????? ??'O'?C Draped bust of Antino?s to left, wearing hemhem crown. Rev. L - I-O Antinous as Hermes on horseback to right, holding kerykeion in his right hand.VF/gF. Green colour is much less evident than photo.Dattari (Savio) 2082. Emmett 1346.19. K&G 34a.1. RPC III online 6062.40 ( this coin ).In 130, Hadrian arrived in Egypt along with his entourage, which included the young Antinous, Hadrian's lover, whom he had met seven years earlier in Claudiopolis in Bithynia. During a lion hunt in a Libyan desert, the emperor narrowly saved the young man's life, but a sad fate befell him shortly thereafter during a cruise on the Nile.The details of the events are sketchy: all we know is that Antinous somehow fell overboard and was pulled underwater by the stream, drowning.The official version was already questioned in Antiquity, however. Theories range from murder perpetrated by one of his rivals or a gruesome human sacrifice meant to reinvigorate Hadrian's failing health. Whatever the truth behind Antinous' death, Hadrian was devastated, and he honored his fallen lover by founding an eponymous city, Antinoopolis, at the spot where he died and the young man was worshiped as a hero thereafter. (P) | SOLD at A$1400 | ||
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