Cilicia, AR Obol Of Tiribazos, Baal Seated

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Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 03/26/2018 1:16 pm This came from the same lot as the other one: http://goccf.com/t/303952 Cilicia, Tarsos Satrap Tiribazos, 386-380 BC AR Obol Baal seated right, holding bird and scepter, monogram behind chair Herakles (or Baal), nude, standing right, holding bird and small scepter, Aramaic TRZ behind SNG Levante 67 (Var monogram) Ref: https://www.cNGCoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=44778 Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 03/26/2018 3:29 pm Haven't seen this type before. Nice. Report this Post to the Staff
Palouche Pillar of the Community Spain 2752 Posts	Posted 03/26/2018 4:25 pm Really nice little coin Steve! And looking at the coin and its sold price on the link a great little acquisition as yours is in much better condition! Congrats Paul Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34440 Posts	Posted 03/26/2018 8:56 pm Interesting coin--thanks for posting! "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 03/27/2018 10:14 am Thanks all! These coins from Cilicia are really fascinating. I've been googling around and can't seem to find much info on Baal/Baaltars except that he was the "Persian Zeus". Any mythology buffs care to weigh in? Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16868 Posts	Posted 03/27/2018 9:36 pm "Baal", as I understand it, is a generic name for a god in western Semitic (eg. Phoenician, Hebrew) cultures. The Biblical Baal of the Old Testament, for example, is usually identified as the Phoenician god Hadad; other biblical passages refer to "the baals" (plural). Generally, if a culture worshipped a sky god of some kind, the Greeks identified that god with Zeus. Hadad was a rain god, reflecting the importance of the regular arrival of the rains for the productivity of the land on the Phoenician coast, so in that aspect the Greeks probably would have associated him as Zeus. I don't think terribly much is known about the religion of pre-Greek Cilician cultures; I don not know how "Phoenician" they were (they use Phoenician script on this coin) or whether their chief deity would have been called "Baal" or something similar. It's possible "Baal" is simply a modern cataloguer's shorthand for "Middle-eastern unidentified deity". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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