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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Themes & Provenance| > |Denominations| > |Cistophori| > GS81790
Tralleis, Lydia, c. 140 - 133 B.C.
|Cistophori|, |Tralleis,| |Lydia,| |c.| |140| |-| |133| |B.C.|, On the slopes of Mount Messogis in the valley of the Meander, Tralles, was one of the largest and richest cities of Lydia. King Attalus had a splendid palace there. The local god was Zeus Larasios, but Apollo Pythius and other divinities were also worshiped. Tralles was destroyed by an earthquake but was rebuilt by Augustus and took the name of Caesarea.

The cista mystica was a basket used for housing sacred snakes in connection with the initiation ceremony into the cult of Bacchus (Dionysus). In the Dionysian mysteries a snake, representing the god and possibly symbolic of his phallus, was carried in a cista mystica on a bed of vine leaves.
GS81790. Silver cistophoric tetradrachm, BMC Lydia p. 330, 34, VF, Tralles (Aydýn, Turkey) mint, weight 12.505g, maximum diameter 24.5mm, die axis 30o, c. 140 - 133 B.C.; obverse snake emerging from a cista mystica with half-open lid, all within ivy wreath; reverse bow-case ornamented with an apluster, strung bow emerging upper left, flanked on each side by a snake with head erect, AΠOΛ above case below heads of snakes, TPAΛ left, hand holding caduceus right, straps from case draped over snakes below; SOLD










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