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Live auction - bgr_514604 - SYRIA - CYRRHESTICA - BAMBYCE (HIERAPOLIS) Statère

SYRIA - CYRRHESTICA - BAMBYCE (HIERAPOLIS) Statère VF/VF
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Estimate : 5 000 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 05 March 2019 14:29:19
Type : Statère
Date: c. 330-325 AC.
Mint name / Town : Bambyce, Syrie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 7,99 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale très irrégulier à l’usure importante, lisible et identifiable. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : INSCRIPTION EN ARAMÉEN.
Obverse description : Buste casqué, barbu et drapé de face ; un sceptre dans le champ à gauche.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Baaltars, nu jusqu’à la ceinture assis à gauche sur un trône sans dossier, tenant le thymiaterion de la main droite.

Commentary


Ce type de la plus grande rareté semble être le deuxième exemplaire signalé. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de l’article de Mildenberg, pl. 27, n° 28 (mal décrit et seulement photographié). L’état de conservation ne permet pas de confirmer une liaison de coin pour le revers.

Historical background


SYRIA - CYRRHESTICA - BAMBYCE (HIERAPOLIS)

(4th - 3rd century BC)

Bambyce or Mangbog was a Semitic city located not far from the Euphrates where the Syrian goddess Atargatis was venerated. The city seems to have been a religious state which recognized the Achaemenid authority before passing under the control of Alexander the Great, then of Seleucus I, who refounded the city under the name of Hierapolis..

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