#ancyra

[twofielder]

Coin of the Day #442 (7/20/2025)

A nice looking provincial…

Roman Province - Phrygia

AE25 - 7.84g

Antoninus Pius 138-161 AD

Ancyra Mint

Obverse ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Τ ΑΙΛΟC ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟC

Head of Antoninus Pius right

Reverse ΕΠΙ ΛΙΚΙΝΙΟΥ ΑΡΧ ΑΝΚΥΡΑΝΩΝ

Zeus standing left, holding anchor and long sceptre

RPC IV 1722

[twofielder]

Coin of the Day #411 (6/19/2025)

This little bronze commemorates the Asclepian Games of c. 214 AD…

Roman Province - Galatia

AE18 - 3.57g

Caracalla c. 214 AD

Ancyra Mint

Obverse ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟC ΑΥ

Head of Caracalla right, laureate

Reverse ΜΗΤΡΟΠ ΑΝΚΥΡΑC

Prize crown with palm

RPC V 72003

[cokicenbilirmis]

ancyra; sürpriz bir alışveriş sonucu beni ne kadar şaşırtabilirsen o kadar şaşırttın ve çok iyiydin.

kırmızı bir merlot un verebileceği tokluk hissi ve içimi rahatlığıyla akan bir şarap rahatlığıyla iyi ki almışım dedirtti.

yine olsa yine alırım.

[eleganscadisi]

Yeni yıl yaklaşırken 🎄🎄 #ElegansCadısı #GurmeCadı #instawine #ancyra #şarap #kırmızışarap (at BigChefs) https://www.instagram.com/p/B52v3VpAgeS/?igshid=10blvym0suluk

[keyiflim]

Kavaklıdere Ancyra Narince 2018 #narince #kavaklıderewines #ancyra #weinatolien #weinedertürkei #weinausdertürkei #turkishwineshop #turkishwines #turkishwine #türkischeküche #türkischeweine #türkischerwein #wineofturkey #winesofturkey #anatolianwines #anatolianwine #köln #berlin #münchen #hamburg #weisswein #whitewine #wine #weinausdertürkei #keyifnotlari #wein #wein #weintasting #winelover (Tarabya, Istanbul, Turkey) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxpxMBTl94A/?igshid=12ed9u1tkcb7s

[mjjhoskin]

Edinburgh or Ancyra?

Here’s a little gem, slightly edited for effect:

Once [there], our traveller could … feel safe in a proper metropolis, with its ancient fort standing proud on a rugged crag, its old town crowding down the hill’s gentler back, and its regular, properly-planned new town spread out below, with its imposing architecture and grand monuments to distant monarchs.

Immediately, this reads like a…

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[mcjosefx]

My #Ancyra wine keeps disappearing from Signature Pointe so I’m imbibing this before the well runs dry! Drink up and enjoy. #sarap #unapologeticbitch #tezhumildepower #NotTheApocalypse #Turkey #TurkishDelight #Anatolia #OttomanEmpire (at Signature Pointe on the Lake)

[scurra-vagus-provincial-blog]

PHRYGIA. Ancyra. Sabina (Augusta, 128-136/7). Ae.

Obv: CABЄINA CЄBACTH. Draped bust right. Rev: ANKYPANΩN. Facing statue of the Artemis of Ephesus.

SNG von Aulock 3433; BMC 23.

The city was subsequently conquered by Augustus in 25 BC and passed under the control of the Roman Empire. Now the capital city of the Roman province of Galatia, Ancyra continued to be a center of great commercial importance. Ankara is also famous for the Monumentum Ancyranum (Temple of Augustus and Rome) which contains the official record of the Acts of Augustus, known as the Res Gestae Divi Augusti, an inscription cut in marble on the walls of this temple. The ruins of Ancyra still furnish today valuable bas-reliefs, inscriptions and other architectural fragments. Augustus decided to make Ancyra one of three main administrative centers in central Anatolia. The town was then populated by Phrygians and Celts—the Galatians who spoke a language somewhat closely related to Welsh and Gaelic. Ancyra was the center of a tribe known as the Tectosages, and Augustus upgraded it into a major provincial capital for his empire. Two other Galatian tribal centers, Tavium near Yozgat, and Pessinus (Balhisar) to the west, near Sivrihisar, continued to be reasonably important settlements in the Roman period, but it was Ancyra that grew into a grand metropolis.