Original scientific paper
The coin of the Illyrian king Mytilos in the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb – its re-evaluation and the question of authenticity appendix: on the dating and provenance of KOPKYPAIΩN-issues
Tomislav Bilić
orcid.org/0000-0001-6587-2561
; Archaeological Museum in Zagreb
Damir Doračić
orcid.org/0000-0003-1217-5281
; Archaeological Museum in Zagreb
Abstract
The Illyrian king Mytilos is mentioned in Pompeius Trogus’
Philippic History, while his name, accompanied by a royal title,
also appears on coins. The coins in question are the earliest
Dyrrhachian bronzes with the head of Heracles on the obverse
and the hero’s attributes and the inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ
ΜΥΤΙΛΟΥ on the reverse. A total of five coins bearing the
king’s name are known, including the specimen in the Archaeological
Museum in Zagreb. However, the results of the recent
conservation-restoration and analytical research of the Zagreb
coin have shown that it is actually a replica and not an original
coin, as hitherto believed.
A hypothesis postulating the Archaic date and attributing
the KOPKYPAIΩN-issues to the Knidian colony on Korčula is
analysed and dismissed in the appendix.
Keywords
Greco-Illyrian coins, king Mytilos, Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, replicas, Korkyra Melaina
Hrčak ID:
271180
URI
Publication date:
22.12.2021.
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