ATHENA to the right - The Sealings of Aetolian Kallipolis - no 221 (original) (raw)

Athena, to the right The Sealings of the Aetolian Kallipolis - no 221 Pantos A. Pantos In this sealing of Kallipolis, the characteristic tower polos, which Athena wears, leads us to the East and especially to Asia Minor. In Roman imperial times, Athena as Polias, is synkretized with the Tyche (Fortuna) of the city in coins. It seems that this sealing comes from a town in the Seleucid East, where the Macedonian Athena Alkis wore on her head this particular Asia Minor turreted polos, which was characteristic for the Tyche (Fortuna) of the various cities. (Translation. Initial publication in my Dissertation "ΤΑ ΣΦΡΑΓΙΣΜΑΤΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΙΤΩΛΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΛΛΙΠΟΛΕΩΣ", University of Athens, in Greek)