Hi
Pat!
You have got it again. I have found a text in 'Mysterienheiligtü
mer in Eleusis und Samothrake,
Berlin 1892' stating strong relations between Kyzikos and Samothrake.
Kyzikos has sent the architect Asklepiades, son of Attalos in Kyzikos, to Samothrake, who has erected a
stone together wirh other mystes. This
stone, stg. on a
cippus, wears the depiction of an entrance of a temple whose door was decorated with a
snake entwined torch on each
side. It seems that this Asklepiades was sent to Samothrake to erect a temple.
Another relief was found on a
votive stone showing a similar building which has on each
side of its door too a torch entwined by a
snake.
It is pointed to the fact that the similar depictions are found on coins of Kyzikos. The coin 23660.jpg is discussed in detail. The 3 figures on top of the building are holding each 2 torches. It is suggested that this depiction was brought from Kyzikos to Samothrake and has no origins in Samothrake itself. But after the finding of a third relief with the same motive that can't be true. There must have been a connection to a Samothracian cult. And the concurrence of the coin depictions in Kyzikos and the depictions on the reliefs in Samothrake is the evidence for cult relations between both locations, a relation of kinsmanlike nature between the mysteries in Samothrake and one of the cults of Kyzikos. We don't know the cult. But the cult of Demeter and
Kore is the most probable.
http://www.archive.org/stream/MN40025ucmf_6/MN40025ucmf_6_djvu.txtBest regards
Jochen