Palamnaios

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Palamnaios means “punisher of murderers” and was a common epithet for Zeus in Gomphi.


Hera | Palamnaios | Sceptre | Stephanos | Thunderbolt | Zeus
Thessaly. Gomphoi-Philippopolis
4th-3rd centuries BCE
AE 20.27mm 7.90g
Obverse: Head of Hera facing, wearing stephane and earrings
Reverse: ΓOMФ-ITOYN, Zeus Palamnaios seated left, holding thunderbolt and scepter
Rogers 216; BCD Thessaly II 71.4