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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Themes & Provenance| ▸ |Gods, Non-Olympian| ▸ |Sandan||View Options:   | | | Sandan was a Hittite-Babylonian sun, storm, or warrior god, also perhaps associated with agriculture. The Greeks equated Sandan with Herakles (Hercules). At Tarsus an annual festival honored Sandan-Heracles, which climaxed when an image of the god was burned on a funeral pyre. The Lydians believed their royal house descended from Sandan and Sardis the capital of Lydia, may have been named after Sandan. The pyre of Sandan is featured on coins of Tarsus. |
The Tyche / Sandan type was the only autonomous silver issue of Tarsos. Sandan was a Hittite-Babylonian sun, storm, or warrior god, also perhaps associated with agriculture. The Greeks equated Sandan with Herakles (Hercules). At Tarsus an annual festival honored Sandan-Herakles, which climaxed when an image of the god was burned on a funeral pyre.GS86512. Silver drachm, cf. SNG Levante 925; SNG BnF 1295; BMC Lycaonia p. 178, 94; SNG Cop -; SNGvA -, VF, bold strike, iridescent toning, tight flan, light marks, slight porosity, weight 3.918 g, maximum diameter 16.1 mm, die axis 0o, Tarsos (Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey) mint, 164 - 27 B.C.; obverse turreted head of Tyche right, bead and reel border; reverse Sandan standing right on the back of a mythical horned and winged goat-like animal walking right, he draped and wears a high headdress, bow case and sword on his left side, right hand extended, ax in left hand; two monograms behind (off flan), TAPΣEΩN (downward on right); from the David Cannon Collection, ex Beast Coins; very rare; SOLD
Tranquillina, Augusta, May 241 - 25 February 244 A.D., Tarsos, Cilicia
Tranquillina was the beautiful daughter of the faithful praetorian prefect Timisitheus. Greatly loved by her husband, she survived his assassination, possibly due to her popularity with the general population and the soldiers.
Sandan was a Hittite-Babylonian sun, storm, or warrior god, also perhaps associated with agriculture. The Greeks equated Sandan with Herakles (Hercules). At Tarsus an annual festival honored Sandan-Herakles, which climaxed when an image of the god was burned on a funeral pyre.
The inscription A M K Γ B is a boast of Tarsos meaning, "First (A is the Greek 1), Greatest (Mεγιστη), and Most Beautiful (Kαλλιστη) city of the three (Γ is the Greek 3) adjoining provinces (Cilicia, Isauria, Lycaonia), and holder of two (B is the Greek 2) neokorie (temples dedicated to the imperial cult)."RP21804. Bronze AE 31, RPC Online VII.2 U3452; BMC Lycaonia p. 221, 293; SNG BnF 1727; SNGvA 6057; SNG Leypold 2691; SNG Pfalz 1422; SNG Delepierre 1728; SNG Hunt 2346, aVF, weight 11.085 g, maximum diameter 30.5 mm, die axis 180o, Tarsos (Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey) mint, May 241 - 25 Feb 244 A.D.; obverse CABEINIAN TPANKVIΛΛEINAN CEB, draped bust right, wearing stephane; reverse TAPCOV MHTPOΠOΛEΩC, pyramidal pyre of Sandan, Sandan within standing left on the back of a horned lion standing left, pyre surmounted by an eagle, B / Γ inner left, A / M / K inner right, the pyre and inscriptions covered by an arching canopy supported by two figures wearing Phrygian caps; SOLD
Tarsos, Cilicia, c. 164 - 37 B.C.
Sandan was a Hittite-Babylonian sun, storm, or warrior god, also perhaps associated with agriculture. The Greeks equated Sandan with Herakles (Hercules). At Tarsus an annual festival honored Sandan-Herakles, which climaxed when an image of the god was burned on a funeral pyre. GB82873. Bronze AE 21, SGCV II 5672; BMC Lycaonia p. 180, 106 ff. var. (monogram); SNG Cop 333-341 var. (same), VF, weight 7.107 g, maximum diameter 20.7 mm, die axis 0o, Tarsos (Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey) mint, c. 164 - 37 B.C.; obverse veiled and turreted head of Tyche right; reverse TAPΣEΩN, Sandan cult image standing right on horned and winged animal, on a garlanded base and within a pyramidal pyre surmounted by an eagle, IΣO left; SOLD
Tarsos, Cilicia, c. 164 - 37 B.C.
The patron god of the Tarsos was Sandan and a large monument to Sandan existed at Tarsos until at least the 3rd century A.D. Sandan was a Hittite-Babylonian sun, storm, or warrior god, also perhaps associated with agriculture. The Greeks equated Sandan with Herakles (Hercules). At Tarsus an annual festival honored Sandan-Herakles, which climaxed when, as depicted on this coin, an image of the god was burned on a funeral pyre. It is now thought likely that the Lion of Saint Mark on the pillar in the Piazza San Marco in Venice was in origin a winged lion-griffin from a monument at Tarsus.GB97284. Bronze AE 20, SNG BnF 1335; SNG Levante 943 var. (only the top 2 monograms); BMC Lycaonia p. 180, 106 ff. var. (monograms), VF, porous, reverse a little off center, beveled obverse edge, weight 6.506 g, maximum diameter 19.9 mm, die axis 0o, Tarsos (Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey) mint, c. 164 - 37 B.C.; obverse veiled and turreted head of Tyche right; reverse Sandan cult image standing right on horned and winged animal, on a garlanded base and within a pyramidal pyre surmounted by an eagle, three control monograms in column on left: ΠA / HB / AP, TAPΣEΩN downward on right; SOLD
Tarsos, Cilicia, c. 164 - 37 B.C.
Sandan was a Hittite-Babylonian sun, storm, or warrior god, also perhaps associated with agriculture. The Greeks equated Sandan with Herakles (Hercules). At Tarsus an annual festival honored Sandan-Herakles, which climaxed when an image of the god was burned on a funeral pyre.GB82849. Bronze AE 21, SGCV II 5672; BMC Lycaonia p. 180, 110 or similar, VF, nice patina, weight 6.670 g, maximum diameter 20.5 mm, die axis 0o, Tarsos (Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey) mint, c. 164 - 37 B.C.; obverse veiled and turreted head of Tyche right; reverse TAPΣEΩN, Sandan cult image standing right on horned and winged animal, on a garlanded base and within a pyramidal pyre surmounted by an eagle, monograms left; SOLD
Tarsos, Cilicia, 27 B.C. - 192 A.D.
According to BMC Cilicia, Tarsos assumed the title ΜΗTPOΠOΛIΣ (metropolis) in early Imperial times and issued pseudo autonomous types at least down to the time of Commodus.
Sandan was a Hittite-Babylonian sun, storm, or warrior god, also perhaps associated with agriculture. The Greeks equated Sandan with Herakles (Hercules). At Tarsus an annual festival honored Sandan-Herakles, which climaxed when an image of the god was burned on a funeral pyre.RP89900. Bronze AE 17, SNG Levante 970 (same dies), SNG BnF 1305, BMC Lycaonia - ; SNG Cop -, aVF, dark green patina with attractive earthen highlighting, weight 2.664 g, maximum diameter 17.2 mm, die axis 0o, Tarsos (Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey) mint, 27 B.C. - 192 A.D.; obverse turreted head of Tyche (city goddess) right, monogram behind, bead and reel border; reverse Sandan standing right on a horned goat-like animal walking right, MH/TPO (metropolis) in two lines upper left, TAPΣEΩN (clockwise on right); rare; SOLD
Tarsos, Cilicia, 164 B.C. - c. 1st Century A.D.
Sandan was a Hittite-Babylonian sun, storm, or warrior god, also perhaps associated with agriculture. The Greeks equated Sandan with Herakles (Hercules). At Tarsus an annual festival honored Sandan-Herakles, which climaxed when an image of the god was burned on a funeral pyre.GB83420. Bronze AE 18, SNG Levante 928 var. (monograms), SNG BnF 1304 var. (same), BMC Lycaonia - ; SNG Cop -, gVF, nice patina, weight 3.334 g, maximum diameter 17.8 mm, die axis 0o, Tarsos (Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey) mint, obverse turreted head of Tyche right, monogram behind, bead and reel border; reverse TAPΣEΩN (vertical downward on right), Sandan standing right on a horned goat-like animal walking right, monograms left; SOLD
Tarsos, Cilicia, c. 164 - 37 B.C.
Sandan was a Hittite-Babylonian sun, storm, or warrior god, also perhaps associated with agriculture. The Greeks equated Sandan with Herakles (Hercules). At Tarsus an annual festival honored Sandan-Herakles, which climaxed when, as depicted on this coin, an image of the god was burned on a funeral pyre. GB71448. Bronze AE 21, cf. SNG BnF 1307 ff.; SNG Levante 933 ff.; SNG Cop 333 ff.; BMC Lycaonia p. 180, 107; BMC Lycaonia p. 180, 107 (none with only ΔI control), aVF, weight 8.034 g, maximum diameter 21.2 mm, die axis 0o, Tarsos (Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey) mint, c. 164 - 37 B.C.; obverse veiled and turreted head of Tyche right; reverse Sandan cult image standing right on horned and winged animal, on a garlanded base and within a pyramidal pyre surmounted by an eagle, ΔI upper left, TAPΣEΩN downward on right; SOLD
Tarsos, Cilicia, c. 164 - 37 B.C.
Sandan was a Hittite-Babylonian sun, storm, or warrior god, also perhaps associated with agriculture. The Greeks equated Sandan with Herakles (Hercules). At Tarsus an annual festival honored Sandan-Herakles, which climaxed when, as depicted on this coin, an image of the god was burned on a funeral pyre.GB72627. Bronze AE 21, cf. SNG Cop 339 (possibly same monograms); SNG Levante 953 (same) and 952 (same countermark); BMC Lycaonia p. 180, 106 ff. (various monograms), aVF, weight 8.347 g, maximum diameter 21.4 mm, die axis 315o, Tarsos (Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey) mint, c. 164 - 37 B.C.; obverse veiled and turreted head of Tyche right; countermark: radiate head of Helios within oval punch; reverse TAPΣEΩN, Sandan cult image standing right on horned and winged animal, on a garlanded base and within a pyramidal pyre surmounted by an eagle; SOLD
Tarsos, Cilicia, c. 95 - 80 B.C.
Sandan was a Hittite-Babylonian sun, storm, or warrior god, also perhaps associated with agriculture. The Greeks equated Sandan with Herakles (Hercules). At Tarsus an annual festival honored Sandan-Herakles, which climaxed when an image of the god was burned on a funeral pyre.GB97885. Bronze AE 21, BMC Lycaonia p. 180, 111; SNG BnF 1324; SNG Cop 340 var. (different controls); SNG Levante 949 var. (same), aVF, green patina, copper high spots, light earthen deposits, light marks, weight 5.589 g, maximum diameter 21.2 mm, die axis 0o, Tarsos (Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey) mint, c. 95 - 80 B.C.; obverse veiled and turreted head of Tyche right; reverse Sandan cult image standing right on horned and winged animal, on a garlanded base and within a pyramidal pyre surmounted by an eagle, TAPΣEΩN downward on right, KA / MI /
monogram (controls) downward in a column on left; from a Norwegian collection; SOLD
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