Person GND

Name

Pyrrhos

Third magistrate attested in Athens in 115/114 BC. From Lamptrai. Attested as knight in 128/127 BC (H. B. Mattingly, Numismatic Chronicle 157, 1997, p. 259). Brother of Byttakos, one of the third magistrates in 118/117 BC (Thompson 1961, p. 580; Habicht 1991, p. 21).

Lit.: M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens (1961) nos. 631-636 / issue 50 (p. 580); C. Habicht, Zu den Münzmagistraten der Silberprägung des Neuen Stils, Chiron 21, 1991, p. 5 (115/114 BC); Prosopographia Attica 12509; P. M. Fraser - E. Matthews, A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names II Attica (1994) p. 389 s. v. Pyrrhos, no. 32; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 787 s. v. Pyrrhos.

Types

Magistrate (Ant) Info

Nomisma

http://nomisma.org/id/pyrrhos_athens nomisma

http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/id/V2-55293 LGPN

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