Hi!
Euposia is one of my favourite deities. The source is Eubosia in
Phrygia. About 10 year I have seached for an available specimen. Now I found one for an affordable
price:
Phrygia,
Hierapolis,
pseudo-autonomous, 2nd-3rd century AD
AE 27, 11.72g, 180°
obv. IERAPOLEI - TWN (from upper Right)
Head of
Dionysos with ivy
wreath r.
rev. EUBO - CIA (from lower left)
Demeter
Euposia, in long garment and mantle, stg. l., holding in extended r. hand 2 grain ears and in l.
arm cornucopiae on which the
baby
Ploutos is sitting stretching the arms for her
ref.
cf. Künker Auc. 193, Sept. 2011, Lot 263
unpublished in greater works
very
rare, F+, olive green
patinaPedigree:
ex Bertolami
Fine Arts E-Auction 49, November 2011, Lot 484 (in error referenced as
von Aulock Pisidien I, 891-7. But that is
Decius from Isinda!)
More often
Euposia is depicted as
Tyche Euposia. But here it is the rarer variant as Demeter
Euposia with 2 grain ears. I found this
type only 4x in the web. Eubosia is translated "
good pasture", and Eubosia is the Phrygian goddess of
fertility and welfare. So she is easily identified with the Greek Demeter.
Best regards