Demetrios (Person, Concept)

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Demetrios (en)

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First magistrate attested in Athens in 143/142 BC [Thompson issue 23]. Later attested as third magistrate in 136/135 BC [issue 29]; most probably also the first moneyer's monogram of 141/140 BC[issue 24] is to be read as "Demetrios" and the person seems to be identical with ΔΗΜΗ... of the two other issues (Thompson p. 91): See M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens (1961) nos. 202-227, nos. 228-246, and nos. 330-332, 341-342 / her issues 23, 24 and 29 (pp. 88-91, 558); C. Habicht, Zu den Münzmagistraten der Silberprägung des Neuen Stils, Chiron 21, 1991, p. 5 (143/142,141/140 and 136/135 BC, his issues 22, 24 and 29); Prosopographia Attica 3340; P. M. Fraser – E. Matthews, A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names II Attica (1994) p. 104 s. v. Demetrios, no. 37; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 438 s. v. Demetrios.

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