Person GND

Name

Alkaios

Magistrate in Dyrrhachium/Illyria, c. 2nd/1st century BC.

His name (always written in the Nominative case on the obverse) is attested on several coins issued in the Hellenistic period: A. Maier, Die Silberprägung von Apollonia und Dyrrhachium, Numismatische Zeitschrift 41, 1908, pp. 21-28 nos. 137-138, 160, 162, 169, 252, 274, 284, 314, 320, 330, 346, 355-356, 360, 375, 403, 422 (c. 229-100 BC).

Lit.: W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 309 s. v. Alkaios (2nd/1st cent. BC); P. M. Fraser - E. Matthews (eds.), Lexicon of Greek Personal Names III A. The Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily and Magna Graecia (1997) s. v. Alkaios (no. 7) (250-50 BC).

Types

Magistrate (Ant) Info

http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/id/V3a-54012

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