★ Statue of young Zeus at Aegium ★
Achaia. Aegium. Plautilla. Augusta AD 202-205.
Assarion Æ
24 mm, 4,88 g
ΦΟV ΠΛ-ΑVΤΙΛΛΑ C, draped bust of Plautilla to right, her hair bound up at the back, and with cornucopia at her left shoulder / AIΓ-IЄΩN, archaic statue of Zeus, young, unbearded and naked, standing right, holding thunderbolt in his raising right hand and eagle on his extended left arm.
very fine
BCD Peloponnesos -; BCD Peloponnesos II -; BMC Peloponnesus -; NCP, p.85.
From the Tareq Hani collection