#seleucia

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Silver tetradrachm of Mithradates I.

Date: 171-138 B.C.

Place of origin: Minted in Seleucia ad Tigrim

Culture: Parthian

Medium: Silver

[dererumgestarum]

A TOMB WITH A VIEW

Roman temple and house mausolea in Anatolia, 2nd/early 3rd centuries. Six are in the vicinity of Imbriogon, a resort town frequented by wealthy merchants from Seleucia. Others are in Hierapolis (Pamukkale), Milas (Mylasa) and Mezgit Kalise.

[didoofcarthage]

When one of them moved through the center of Seleukia just as it was getting dark-- moved like a young man, tall, extremely handsome, the joy of immortality in his eyes, his hair black and perfumed-- the people going by would gaze at him, and they would ask each other who he was, if he was a Greek from Syria, or a stranger. But some who looked more carefully would understand and step aside; and as he disappeared under the colonnade, among the shadows and the evening lights, going toward the quarter that lives only at night, with orgies and debauchery, with every kind of intoxication and desire, they would wonder which of Them it could be, and for what suspicious pleasure he'd come down into the streets of Seleukia from the August Celestial Mansions.

C.P. Cavafy, “One of Their Gods,” from Selected Poems (translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)

[theancientwayoflife]

~Tetradrachm with Antiochus I.

Culture: Greek (Seleucid)

Place of origin: Seleucia on Tigris, Iraq

Date: ca. 281 - 261 B.C.

[twofielder]

Coin of the Day #467 (8/14/2025)

A nice Greek bronze…

Cilicia

AE23 - 6.45g

c. 2nd-1st Century BC

Seleukia ad Kalykadnum Mint

Obverse ΣΑ

Head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helmet

Reverse ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΩΙ ΚΑΛΥΚΑΔΝΩΙ

Nike advancing left, holding wreath

SNG BN 905, SNG Levante 683

[twofielder]

Coin of the Day #89 (8/1/2024)

A big bronze to start the month…

Roman Province - Cilicia

AE30 - 11.19g

Severus Alexander 222-235 AD

Seleucia ad Calycadnum Mint

Obverse AY K M AYP CEOYHP AΛEΞANΔPOC

Bust of Severus Alexander right, radiate, draped, cuirassed, from front, dot in Δ and KA monogram countermarks (same city, 240s AD)

Reverse CEΛEYKEΩN KAΛYKA

Athena standing right, holding shield and brandishing spear to anguiform giant throwing stones

RPC VI 7038 (cmks: GIC 618 + 670)

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Seleucus I Nicator, the Basileus of the Seleucid Empire, founds the city of Seleucia on the Tigris and makes it new capital of the empire, which eventually depopulates Babylon Seleucus Nicator on Historystack