The ancient town of Asopos are today ruins on the small promontory SE of Plytra. Under Roman rule it was an important town on Cape Maleas and a major centre on the imperial Roman road network. Ruins are still visible on the shore and on the seabed (tombs, bath houses with mosaic floors and the ruins of other buildings).
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| Pausanias 1 | Septimius Severus, AE24 of Asopus, Laconia. AY Λ CEΠT CEOYHΡOC ΠEΡT, laureate head right. / ACωΠEITωN, Athena standing left, holding spear over head and cypress branches in left arm. Pausanias 1; Paris 1817; Mionnet II, 77. | Text | Image |
| Naumann 128,460 | Septimius Severus, AE21 of Asopos, Laconia. AD 193-211. 4.82 g. AY Λ CEΠT CEOYHΡOC ΠEΡT, laureate head right. / ACωΠEITωN, Tyche or Homonoia standing left, turreted, holding patera and cornucopiae. Unpublished reverse for Severus. Naumann 128, 460. | Text | Image |
| CNG 380, 405 | Julia Domna, AE21 of Asopus, Laconia. AD 193-217. 6 g. IOYΛIA ΔOMNA AY, draped bust right. / ACωΠEITωN, Nemesis standing left, hand raised to face, wheel at foot. Unpublished reverse for Julia Domna. CNG 380, 405. | Text | Image |
| Mionnet 78 | Caracalla AE 23mm of Lakonia, Asopus. Youthful, laureate draped and cuirassed bust right / ACωΠEITωN, Tyche standing left, turreted, holding patera and cornucopiae. Mionnet 78; BCD Pelop. (LHS) 948-949. | Text | Image |
| Mionnet Supp 4, 47 | Caracalla AE21 of Asopus, Laconia. AD 198-217. 5.77 g. M AYΡH ANTωNEINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / ACΩΠEITΩN, Poseidon standing front, holding trident. Mionnet Supp. IV, 47, citing Eckhel, Cat. Vindob. p. 121, 1. | Text | Image |
| Pausanias 1b | Plautilla, AE24 of Asopus, Laconia. ΦOYΛBIA ΠΛAYTIΛΛA CEBA, draped bust right. / ACωΠEITωN, Athena standing left, holding spear over head and cypress branches in left arm. Pausanias 1b (add, listed only for Sept. Severus). | Text | Image |
| Weber 4139 | Plautilla, AE21 of Asopos, Laconia, AD 202-205. ΦOYΛ ΠΛAYTIΛΛA, draped bust right / ACωΠEITωN, Hera (or Tyche) standing left, towered, holding patera and cornucopiae. Weber 4139; BCD Pelopp. 950. | Text | Image |
| Mionnet II, 78 | Caracalla AE23 of Asopus, Laconia. M AYΡH ANTωNEINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / ACωΠEITωN, Hera (or Tyche) standing left, turreted, holding patera and cornucopiae. BCD 948-949; Mionnet II, 48. | Text | Image |
| Entry for Asopus on the Digital Historia Numorum | |||
