Messenia, Thouria
Geta, as Caesar, 198-209 CE
Assarion AE 19.5mm, 4.63g, 5h
AV K M AN-ΤΩΝΙΝΟΣ Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Geta to right
Rev. ΘOV-PI-ATΩN Athena standing to left, holding a spear and patera, Λ-Α across fields
BCD Peloponnesos 834.4
Ex BCD collection, acquired in October 1986
Ex collection of John Aiello
Although Pausanias does not mention a temple to Athena in Thuria, Le Bas and Waddington documented an inscription in Thuria that mentioned a priest of Athene. Therefore, it appears there was a temple, and this may have been the statue within.