This article corrects some points in the publication in the no 35 issue of the Archaeologia journal on the subject of a Greek Kylix . The kylix discussed is an Attic red figure vase dating from the 5th century BC. On it is depicted a tortoise behind the figure of a running man. In this picture the tortoise is a hybrid, having all the characteristics of a sea-turtle apart from its shell which is that of a tortoise (land turtle). The first staters of Aegina, minted in the years 700-404BC, display on the obverse side the peloglyph of a Land tortoise ‘s shell or carapace. This, it seems, stands for three Qhuena terms: a) “Oenone”, an earlier term for Aegina, b)” Oenopia,” another former name of Aegina, and c) “Oea”, early main inland town of Aegina.
Sea turtles and the ancient Greeks (addendum)
22 Aug 2012
by Archaeology Newsroom
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