"All
Domna at
Philippopolis is hard to get, but this one [city-goddess
reverse" and the
Artemis holding the Infant
Dionysos, no. 1386, are singled out. . . . The utterly unique one is that
Artemis with a baby
Dionysos. Its
Julia D.
portrait is unque, too."
Pat Lawrence (slokind) in an earlier
thread,
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=49902.msg310304#msg310304, citing Jochen's great specimen,
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-36927.
I attach three new images, first my specimen of the J.
Domna /
Artemis, then a J.
Domna /
Nike which apparently uses the same
portrait, then an unpublished specimen which I just acquired (better image perhaps soon forthcoming), AE 24, 6.8 g. Though the
lion behind the seated figure might mark her as Kybele (apparently the subject of another v.
rare Sept.
Sev. issue,
Varbanov 1371,
Moushmov 5269), s/he seems to be holding a
caduceus before her (intervening between
and
at the figure's knee-level); is this a Kybele-Homonoia, or is there a better way of explaining this attribute?
