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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Phrygia| > |Apameia Cibotus| > GS82048
Apameia ad Maeandrum, Phrygia, c. 189 - 133 B.C.
|Apameia| |Cibotus|, |Apameia| |ad| |Maeandrum,| |Phrygia,| |c.| |189| |-| |133| |B.C.|, The cista mystica was a basket used for housing sacred snakes in connection with the initiation ceremony into the cult of Bacchus (Dionysus). In the Dionysian mysteries a snake, representing the god and possibly symbolic of his phallus, was carried in a cista mystica on a bed of vine leaves. The cista in the mysteries of Isis may also have held a serpent, perhaps associated with the missing phallus of Osiris.
GS82048. Silver cistophoric tetradrachm, SNGvA 3448 ff. var. (control marks), SNG Cop 147 - 148 var. (same); BMC Phrygia p. 69, 1 ff. var. (same), VF, Phrygia, Apameia ad Maeandrum (Dinar, Turkey) mint, weight 11.933g, maximum diameter 28.3mm, die axis 180o, obverse cista mystica, half-open lid, from which serpent emerges left, all within ivy-wreath; reverse two coiled snakes flanking bow-case ornamented with floral scroll like an apluster, ligate AΠ monogram (Apameia) outer left, control letters ligate HΠ inner left, club right; rare; SOLD











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