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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Lydia| > |Thyatira| > RP82025
Thyatira, Lydia, c. 161 - 192 A.D.
|Thyatira|, |Thyatira,| |Lydia,| |c.| |161| |-| |192| |A.D.|, A tripod lebes is a cauldron in a three-legged stand used for religious ritual. Apollo's most famous attribute is the tripod, symbolic of his prophetic powers. His priestess sat on a tripod chewing laurel leaves and inhaling hallucinating vapors from a fissure in the floor. After she mumbled her answer, a male priest would translate it. The tripod is also a symbol of Dionysos because the bowl was used to mix wine. Ancient Greeks sayings include, "wine is truth" and "wine reveals the heart of man," and those who speak the truth were said to "speak from the tripod." Athenaeus wrote, "The tripod is proper to Apollo because of its prophetic truth, while to Dionysos it is proper because of the truth of wine" (Deipnosophistae 2).
RP82025. Bronze AE 17, BMC Lydia p. 296, 25, VF, Thyatira (Akhisar, Turkey) mint, weight 3.065g, maximum diameter 16.5mm, die axis 180o, c. 161 - 192 A.D.; obverse bearded head of Herakles right; reverse ΘYATIPHNΩN, tripod lebes; nice style; SOLD











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