Greek Ionia Erythrai Cult Of Heracles

According to myth, Erythros was a son of the Cretan king Rhadamanthys, who founded the city of Erythrai. Pausanias said he led Cretans, Lycians, Carians and Pamphylians to Ionia.

Erythrai had an extensive coinage of hektai during the second half of the 6th century. All of them have a head of Herakles on the obverse and a simple incuse square on the reverse. The series starts with early heads that can be rather rude in style paired with rather rough incuses; then more carefully done heads paired with quadripartite incuse squares; finally, the same reverse is paired with more refined, late Archaic heads of Herakles.

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