Cyprus money 10 Cypriot pounds banknote of 1998, Artemis.

Cyprus CY£ 10 pounds bank note

Central Bank of Cyprus - Ten pounds note

Cyprus money 10 Cypriot pounds banknote of 1998, issued by the Central Bank of Cyprus - Kentriki Trapeza tis Kyproy - Kıbrıs Merkez Bankası.
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Obverse: Marble head of Goddess Artemis found in Paphos and dated from the Roman period;
Cyprus map outline.
Reverse: A composition depicting birds Cyprus warbler, Cyprus mouflon, a green turtle, a tulips and a cyclamens, Paphos Blue Butterly (glaucopsyche paphos).
Watermark: Bust of goddess Aphrodite.
Dimensions: 156 x 76 mm.

Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. Her Roman equivalent is Diana. Some scholars believe that the name, and indeed the goddess herself, was originally pre-Greek. Homer refers to her as Artemis Agrotera, Potnia Theron: "Artemis of the wildland, Mistress of Animals". The Arcadians believed she was the daughter of Demeter.
In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis (Ancient Greek: Ἄρτεμις) was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and protector of young girls, bringing and relieving disease in women; she often was depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows. The deer and the cypress were sacred to her. In later Hellenistic times, she even assumed the ancient role of Eileithyia in aiding childbirth.