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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Cilicia| > RP11446
Gallienus, August 253 - September 268 A.D., Irenopolis, Cilicia
|Cilicia|, |Gallienus,| |August| |253| |-| |September| |268| |A.D.,| |Irenopolis,| |Cilicia|,
Rome officially adopted the cult of Cybele during the Second Punic War (218 to 201 B.C.), after dire prodigies, including a meteor shower, a failed harvest and famine, seemed to warn of Rome's imminent defeat. The Roman Senate and its religious advisers consulted the Sibylline oracle and decided that Carthage might be defeated if Rome imported the Magna Mater ("Great Mother") of Phrygian Pessinos. As this cult object belonged to a Roman ally, the Kingdom of Pergamum, the Roman Senate sent ambassadors to seek the king's consent; en route, a consultation with the Greek oracle at Delphi confirmed that the goddess should be brought to Rome. The goddess arrived in Rome in the form of Pessinos' black meteoric stone. Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, supposedly the "best man" in Rome, was chosen to meet the goddess at Ostia; and Rome's most virtuous matrons conducted her to the temple of Victoria, to await the completion of her temple on the Palatine Hill. Pessinos' stone was later used as the face of the goddess' statue. In due course, the famine ended and Hannibal was defeated.Cybele
RP11446. Bronze AE 28, SNGvA 5600, VF, nice green patina and interesting portrait, Irenopolis (Düzici, Turkey) mint, weight 17.083g, maximum diameter 28.4mm, die axis 180o, 258 - 259 A.D.; obverse ΠOY ΛIK ΓAΛΛIHNOC, draped and cuirassed bust right; reverse IPHNOΠOΛE ZS, Cybele seated left on rock, resting hand on drum right, two lions at feet; very rare; SOLD











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