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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Kallatis| > GB79703
Kallatis, Thrace, 3rd - 2nd Century B.C.
|Kallatis|, |Kallatis,| |Thrace,| |3rd| |-| |2nd| |Century| |B.C.|, Apollo's most important attribute is the tripod lebes, a cauldron in a three-legged stand used for religious rituals. The tripod lebes is symbolic of his prophetic powers. At his temple at Delphi, his priestess sat on his tripod chewing laurel leaves and inhaling hallucinating vapors from a fissure in the floor. After she mumbled her prophesy, a male priest would translate it for the supplicant.
GB79703. Bronze AE 26, AMNG I/I 227 ff. var. (different magistrates), SNG Stancomb 69 ff. var. (same), SNG BM 214 var. (same), F, bumps and cuts, minor edge flaw, Kallatis (Mangalia, Romania) mint, weight 9.687g, maximum diameter 25.9mm, die axis 0o, c. 200 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Apollo right; reverse KAΛΛA-TIANΩN, tripod, stalk of grain left field, ΔΗΛO (magistrate) in exergue; none with this magistrate on Coin Archives; rare magistrate; SOLD











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