identify help need for this beautiful AE!!!!

[makrihoria]

Could anybody help me on this one: It is an AE 16/18mm and 4.2gr in weight having  P A in Greek above the bull, found in Aisa Minor (Ionia or Mysia).

THANKS A LOT IN ADVANCE!

[EmpressCollector]

Just a lead from an ANS search to look into further:

Dept.: G   Obj.Type: C   Reference:
Region: Mysia   Locality:    Mint: Parium  
Material: AE   Denom.:
Weight: 4.91   Size: 17   Axis: 5
Date: 0 / 0   Era:    Date on Obj.:
Category:    Person:    Dynasty:    Issuer:
ObvLegd:
ObvType: female hd. wearing cecryphalos r.
RevLegd:
RevType: bull stg. r.
PrevColl.:    FindSpot:
Color:    UnderType:    CounterStamp: yes
Publication:      Symbols:      OtherInfo.:
Preferred URL: http://www.amnumsoc.org/lookup.cgi?string=1944.100.43086

What's a cecryphalos??

[Misanthropus]

I second that emotion--what is a cecryphalos?  At any rate, a beautiful coin!

[sid]

Also spelled kekryphalos, a hairnet.

[esnible]

If Parium, then perhaps unpublished!

(Nothing in my photo file, or Lindgren, or the volumes indexed by the ISEGRIM search engine.)

[makrihoria]

SORRY SORRY SORRY MANY TIMES!!! PLEASE FORGIVE ME MY BEING SO AWFUL!!
THE LETTERS ON IT ARE NOT  ''  P A  '' BUT  '' G A''

REALY SORRY!

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH !!

[EmpressCollector]

Sid, thanks for the alternative spelling, I was able to find alot about these hairnets.  Here is an Attic Red Figure column krater (ca. 480 B.C. - 470 B.C) attributed to the Pig Painter from the Harvard University Art Museum collection (courtesy the Perseus Project).  It depicts two women wearing kekryphaloi.  I think the figure on makrihoria's coin is wearing one, too!

[EmpressCollector]

SORRY SORRY SORRY MANY TIMES!!! PLEASE FORGIVE ME MY BEING SO AWFUL!!
THE LETTERS ON IT ARE NOT  ''  P A  '' BUT  '' G A''

REALY SORRY!

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH !!

Actually, I think it is a PI.  The right downstroke of the letter pi is often written shorter than the left one.  Gamma does not have a downstroke like that.

[makrihoria]

Dear EmpressCollector,
Thanks alot for Your helps. However I should add that the this first letter has not got a downstroke here! It is exactly worn there or cut unfortunately by had been tri,ying to clean the coin. It is really a G with not  a downstroke at right!
It is very obvious in hand. The scan was not good because of being so bold of this coin. I thave tired to make better scans with scanner but no success. Everytime the smae picture comes out.

THANKS