1996 Band XLVI - Bayerische Numismatische Gesellschaft

202
CONCLUSIONS
(translated by Bernhard Overbeck, if not stated otherwise)
JOHANNES NOLLf, Kitanaura. Münzen und Geschichte einer kleinen Stadt in den ostlykischen
Bergen, p. 7
A small hoard of hellenistic bronze coins found in 1898 close to Antalya not only contains
already known types from Phaselis, Termessus, Perge and Aspendus, but also nine
pieces of a hitherto unknown mint. These coins show the image of the goddess Artemis on
the obverse and the representation of a nude god or hero on the reverse. The reverse legend
is to be read as KITA. This mint can be identified as the city of Kitanaura in the
northeast-lycian/pisidian border zone by analyzing this hoard and by the evidence of the
recently discovered milestone monument from Patara. Kitanaura is situated close to the
Turkish Saraycik. Apparently this in the beginning autonomous and coins of their own
striking little city, important for its traffic situation, in the Ist century B. C. was put under
the supremacy of Termessus by the Romans. In Late Antiquity and the Early Mediaeval
period it was the seat of a bishop. Then in the time of the Turkish immigration it finally
must have vanished.
KAY EHLING, Die Nachfolgeregelung des Antiochos VII. vor seinem Aufbruch in den
Partherkrieg (131 v.Chr.), p. 31
The author attributes a tetradrachm (CSE 690) so far said to be from Antiochus VIII,
son of Demetrius II, to Antiochus Epiphanes, eldest son of Antiochus VII. The portrait of
young Antiochus has been developed out of the representation of his father. Since this son
probably died already in 131 B. C., he was not able to succeed his father.
ROBERT GONNELLA, Ein bisher unbekanntes Bronzetetradrachmon von Vardanes I.
(circa 40-45 n.Chr.), p. 39
This is the publication of the only known tetradrachm in bronze of the Parthian kingdom.
This issue probably is emergency money struck in a time of military disturbances.
Argueing with this coin as a source the author concludes that Vardanes' death has to be redated
at least 15 months earlier than so far assumed, coming to the time of about October
of A. D. 46 to September of A. D. 47.
MARGRET KAROLA NOLLE, Die Eintracht zweier Metropolen: Überlegungen zur Homonoia
von Ephesos und Alexandreia zu Beginn der Regierung Gordians III., p. 49
A voluminous issue of coins from Ephesus struck in the time of Gordianus III on the
homonoia with Alexandria in Egypt has to be dated into the first years of the reign of this
emperor, between Mai/June 238 to May 241. The reason for striking this high quantity of
different types are military confrontations along the border to the Euphrates, to which
both cities were logistically involved as halting places as well as grain delivery posts. The
topics of the reverses of these homonoia-coins show us that many different aspects, religious,
economic, geographic and political, of both cities have been put into consideration.