The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

BCEOTIA. PERIOD IV. CIRC. B.C. 456 446. 203
(Paus. ix. 34, 1). Compare the story of lodama, priestess
of Athena Itonia (Paus. I.e.), to whom, when one night
she entered the sacred temenos, the goddess appeared with
the Gorgon-head upon her chiton, and transformed lodama
into stone. The custom of daily kindling fire upon the
altar of lodama was still kept up at the time when Pau-
sanias visited Coroneia.
HALIARTUS.
Stater.
188-4 grs.
Obol. .
16-5 grs.
Tetartemorion .
3-4 grs.
Boeotian shield, of
which the rim is
studded with nails.
[Brit. Mus. PI. II. 3.]
Boeotian shield. * '
[Berlin.
Prok. Osten.]
I 51 A. Amphora
wreathed with ivy, the
whole in incuse square.
A. Kantharos in
incuse square.
Boeotian shield. A. Kantharos in incuse
[Berlin.]
square.
Haliartus was, as we have seen, destroyed by the
Persians in 480. It must have been rebuilt in the first
half of the fifth century : the exact date we do not know.
Although the above coinage can hardly have commenced
before B.C. 456, there is nothing to show that it ceased
in 446 ; it may therefore in part belong
period.
TANAGRA.
Stater.
188 grs.
Stater.
Stater.
183 grs.
Boeotian shield, rim
divided into twelve
sections.
Similar.
[Brit. Mus.
T A. Forepart
also to the next
of horse
springing 1., the whole in
incuse square.
PI. II. 4.]
A T Similar type r. ,
N- A-
[Prok. Ost. InetL, 1854, pi. ii. 59.]
Similar, rim plain.
[Brit. Mus.
T A. Similar horse, bridled.
PI. II. 5.]