Person

Name

Metro… Di…

Third magistrate attested in Athens in 126/125 BC. Additional ΔΙ to seperates this person from the other ΜΕΤΡΟ..., who signed as third magistrate of issue 39 as well, it may have functioned as mark of origin (deme Diomeia) or as patronymic.

Lit.: M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens (1961) nos. 451-452, 454 / issue 39, commentary on p. 574; C. Habicht, Zu den Münzmagistraten der Silberprägung des Neuen Stils, Chiron 21, 1991, p. 5 (126/125 BC); Prosopographia Attica 10138; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 684 s. v. Metro-.

Types

Magistrate (Ant) Info

http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/id/V2-45544

Nomisma

https://nomisma.org/id/metro_di_athens

Permalink

https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/9340

created

10.05.2024

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