Achaiion

Achaiion or Achaeïum or Achaeum (Ancient Greek: Ἀχαίιον) was a town in the Tenedian Peraia of the ancient Troad. Strabo states that Achaeium marked the beginning of the part of the mainland belonging to Tenedos.

The legend AX (ACH) which some bronze coins found in this region bear is thought to refer to Ach(aiion) by Louis Robert, but others attribute the coins to Achilleion.

Its site is located near Hantepe, Asiatic Turkey.

References

  1. ↑ Pleiades
  2. ↑ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 13.1.46. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ↑ Strabo, Geography, 13.1.32
  4. ↑ Louis Robert (1951). Études de numismatique grecque. p. 8 n. 4.
  5. ↑ asiaminorcoins.com - coins of Achilleion; B.V. Head, Historia Numorum2 540, SNG Cop. Troas 64; J.M. Cook (1973). The Troad. Oxford. p. 181 n. 3. ISBN 978-0-19-813165-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) objects that whereas Achilleion is twice attested as a polis and therefore capable of minting coins (Herodotus 5.94.2, Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Σίγειον) Achaiion never had political autonomy and always belonged to the Tenedian Peraia.
  6. ↑ Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
  7. ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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