Boione ( Ancient Greek: Βοιωνή) was a town of ancient Aeolis. Its name does not appear in history, but is deduced from numismatic evidence consisting of coins dated to the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE on which the inscriptions «ΒΟΙΩΝΙΤΙΚΟΝ» or «ΒΟΙΩΝΙΤΗΣ» appear. [1]
The majority of the coins of Boione have been recovered in the valley of the Hermus River; however, its site is unlocated. The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World suggest it may be found between Larissa and Phocaea. [2] This theory had first been proposed Helmut Engelmann. [3] But as the main clue for this reconstruction - the reading of an inscription from Phocaea - has since been contested, the direct adjacency to Phocaea is not sure. [4]
References
- ^ Nollé, Johannes (2012). "Boione. Überlegungen zur Münzprägung, Lokalisierung und Geschichte eines Polichnion in der Umgebung von Kyme". Chiron. 42: 287–294.
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 56, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Engelmann, Helmut (1981). "Boione und Phokaia". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 42: 207–208. JSTOR 20186087.
- ^ Nollé, Johannes (2012). "Boione. Überlegungen zur Münzprägung, Lokalisierung und Geschichte eines Polichnion in der Umgebung von Kyme". Chiron. 42: 301–304.
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