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Dokimeion, Phrygia, 2nd - 3rd Century A.D.
The quarries around Docimeum are, even to the present day, the source of a fine a white marble streaked with very irregular veins of dark dark purple or dark red with bluish and yellowish tints. This marble was used for sculpture and decorative construction across the Roman empire. It was used in Trajan's Market, in Pompeii, and for the coffin of Saint Peter the Apostle. It was chosen by Hadrian as one of the primary decorative marbles for the Pantheon. Docimeum marble can be seen on the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, in New York City, and Belfast City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The exact site of the city was a matter of some dispute until recently; it is now fixed at the modern Turkish town Iscehisar, in Afyonkarahisar Province.RB110586. Bronze AE 16, SNGvA 3542; Imhoof-Blumer GRMK p. 147, 1; RPC Online -; BMC Phrygia -; SNG Cop -, F, dark patina, porous, Dokimeion (Iscehisar, Turkey) mint, weight 3.037g, maximum diameter 15.7mm, die axis 135o, 2nd - 3rd Century A.D.; obverse draped bare-headed bust of Hermes right, winged kerykeion before him; reverse ΔOKIMEΩN, river god reclining left, reed in right hand, resting left hand on inverted vase from which water flows; very rare; SOLD
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