Corinthia, Tenea
Julia Domna, Augusta, 193-217 CE
AE 22.5mm, 6.49g, 9h
IOY ΔOMNA CEBACTH Draped bust of Julia Domna to right
Rev. T-ENEA-TΩN Dionysos standing to left, pouring wine from kantharos with his right hand and holding thyrsos with his left
Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 75 (Septimius Severus). NCP p. 158
Per Pausanias, the inhabitants of Tenea believed they came from Tenedos, and were taken back as prisoners of war from Troy, then allowed to live in their current location by Agamemnon.
Per Pausanias, Apollo was the most worshipped deity. Per Strabo, Tenea and Tenedos also had common history. Supposedly, Odysseus spent his childhood at Tenea. Its citizens served a sizable number of the colonists of Syracuse.
When Corinth was destroyed by the Romans, Tenea was left alone, supposedly because the Teneans assisted the Romans.
The ruins of the city are the site of archeological work, and numerous interesting discoveries have been found there. Its coins are extremely rare.