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Who the Hek-tor(?) Is this guy? A votive offering, offering a mystery


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I purchased this fun little fella a while ago thinking it to probably be my favorite hero from the Trojan War and son of king Priam, Hektor, primarily due to the silly hat:

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Antiquities Bronze, 13.01g 32mm

I can only assume it's a votive offering to the gods. But without any other examples and not being able to find anything online, I just added it to my antiquities and moved on. 

But recently I've been seeing a bunch of them showing up in auctions. With descriptions as Spartan as mine I still don't have any clues as to who is supposed to be.

Here are two more that are in upcoming auctions with no descriptions other than size and weight:

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I'd love to hear your thoughts on who this is, see your votive offerings or anything related. 

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That's cool, whatever it is!! The only thing Hectorish (Hectoresque? Hectorian? Hectoral?) I have in my collection is this this provincial of Faustina II (of course!):

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Faustina II, 147-175 CE.
Roman provincial Æ 24.5 mm, 8.60 g, 7 h.
Troas, Ilium, issue 4, c. 164-166 CE.
Obv: ΦΑVϹΤΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤ, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: ΕΚΤΩΡ ΙΛΙΕΩΝ, helmeted Hector advancing right, holding fire brand and shield.
Refs: RPC IV.2, 98 (temporary); SNG Munich 247; von Fritze Ilion 72.


This reverse type alludes to the events described in the Iliad XVI.112-124 (translation by Lattimore):
 

Tell me now, you Muses who have your homes on Olympos, how fire was first thrown upon the ships of the Achaians.

Hektor stood up close to Aias and hacked at the ash spear with his great sword, striking behind the socket of the spearhead, and slashed it clean away, so that Telamonian Aias shook there in his hand a lopped spear, while far away from him the bronze spearhead fell echoing to the ground; and Aias knew in his blameless heart, and shivered for knowing it, how this was gods' work, how Zeus high-thundering cut across the intention in all his battle, how he planned that the Trojans should conquer. He drew away out of the missiles, and the Trojans threw weariless fire on the fast ship, and suddenly the quenchless flame streamed over it.

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13 hours ago, Roman Collector said:

That's cool, whatever it is!! The only thing Hectorish (Hectoresque? Hectorian? Hectoral?) I have in my collection is this this provincial of Faustina II (of course!):

faustinajrIliumHector.jpg.136d72fb041678d3dca1c0c77975f5f0.jpg
 

Faustina II, 147-175 CE.
Roman provincial Æ 24.5 mm, 8.60 g, 7 h.
Troas, Ilium, issue 4, c. 164-166 CE.
Obv: ΦΑVϹΤΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤ, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: ΕΚΤΩΡ ΙΛΙΕΩΝ, helmeted Hector advancing right, holding fire brand and shield.
Refs: RPC IV.2, 98 (temporary); SNG Munich 247; von Fritze Ilion 72.


This reverse type alludes to the events described in the Iliad XVI.112-124 (translation by Lattimore):
 

Tell me now, you Muses who have your homes on Olympos, how fire was first thrown upon the ships of the Achaians.

Hektor stood up close to Aias and hacked at the ash spear with his great sword, striking behind the socket of the spearhead, and slashed it clean away, so that Telamonian Aias shook there in his hand a lopped spear, while far away from him the bronze spearhead fell echoing to the ground; and Aias knew in his blameless heart, and shivered for knowing it, how this was gods' work, how Zeus high-thundering cut across the intention in all his battle, how he planned that the Trojans should conquer. He drew away out of the missiles, and the Trojans threw weariless fire on the fast ship, and suddenly the quenchless flame streamed over it.

Thanks and very cool Hektor in action! Mine is only his head looking pensive. 

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Troas, Ophrynion

Æ13. Circa 350-300 BC. Bearded, three-quarter facing head of Hektor, turned slightly right, wearing triple crested helmet / OΦΡΥ, the infant Dionysos kneeling right, holding grape cluster in right hand. SNG Copenhagen 456ff; BMC 4-7; SNG von Aulock 1559; Laffa

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