#selinus

Was about to chalk this one up as an imitation after not being able to find a match. Sent pics to RPC and they figured it out! A unique coin of a scarce ruler from a scarce city…

Roman Province - Cilicia

AE25 - 7.47g

Maximus as Caesar 236-238 AD

Selinus-Traianopolis Mint

Obverse ΓΑΙΟ ΟΥ ΜΑΞΙΜΟC

Bust of Maximus right, draped, cuirassed, from behind

Reverse ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟ CΕΛΙΝΟΥC (retrograde)

Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae

Columna

La columna fue un invento arquitectónico que permitió sostener los techos sin necesidad de usar muros macizos. Las columnas amplían el espacio que puede cubrirse con un techo, lo que facilita la entrada de más luz. También ofrecen una alternativa estética para el exterior de los edificios.

Kim Uchiyama, “Selinus I” (2018),

Oil on linen, 72 x 66 inches,

Image courtesy Jay Grimm Art Advisory,

Syracuse

La ville de Syracuse est située sur la côte est de la Sicile et était à l'origine une colonie grecque fondée par Corinthe en 734 avant notre ère. La ville connut une période d'expansion et de prospérité sous le tyran Gélon au Ve siècle avant notre ère, survécut à un siège de deux ans par les forces athéniennes de 415 à 413 avant notre ère, et prospéra de nouveau sous le tyran Denys au IVe siècle avant notre ère, lorsque la ville contrôlait la majeure partie de la Sicile et de vastes portions de l'Italie du Sud.

Temple C (Temple of Apollo)

Selinus, Sicily, Magna Graecia, Italy

6th century BCE

Doric order

Another post of Magna Graecia! Interesting to see this architecture developing next to, influenced by, and branching out of the now-forming strict Greek architecture.

It was one of the most ancient of the temples at Selinus, having probably been built on the acropolis a little after the middle of the sixth century BCE. Temple C was probably used as an archive (hundreds of seals have been recovered from it) and was dedicated to Apollo.

he building has a peristyle colonnade around the naos (peripteros) with six columns at the front (hexastyle) and seventeen on its long sides, leading to a very elongated floorplan, far from the canonical 1:2 proportion, but paralleled by some other archaic temples, such as the Temple of Hera at Olympia. A flight of eight steps takes up the whole of the front side, with the rest of the crepidoma has four steps as at the temple in Corinth, following a rule which remains constant in Sicily.