Posted 09/15/2020 7:43 pm
Bob, after searching for some time and studying the coin and the symbol below, the sakkos on female's head etc I'm standing to your first choice.
Mysia Lampsakos. Dolphin below. About the female, after reading some more (dying to learn), that female probably is Aphrodite!!
Aphrodite is part of the history of Lampsakos and she is wearing a sakkos in many other cities coins.
Also some history/mythology:
"The ancient Greeks widely believed that Priapus had been born in the city of Lampsacus on the Hellespont. Here sacrifices of donkeys were made in his honor, probably because of the sexual prowess that the Greeks attributed to this animal. The people of Lampsacus revered Priapus more than any other god and identified him as a son of Dionysus and Aphrodite.[2] By the end of the third century B.C.E., Priapus' image was found on coins in this region.
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I wonder how they missed that detail when the archeologist identify the Lampsakos coins.
Thank you Bob!
Mysia Lampsakos. Dolphin below. About the female, after reading some more (dying to learn), that female probably is Aphrodite!!
Aphrodite is part of the history of Lampsakos and she is wearing a sakkos in many other cities coins.
Also some history/mythology:
"The ancient Greeks widely believed that Priapus had been born in the city of Lampsacus on the Hellespont. Here sacrifices of donkeys were made in his honor, probably because of the sexual prowess that the Greeks attributed to this animal. The people of Lampsacus revered Priapus more than any other god and identified him as a son of Dionysus and Aphrodite.[2] By the end of the third century B.C.E., Priapus' image was found on coins in this region.
"I wonder how they missed that detail when the archeologist identify the Lampsakos coins.
Thank you Bob!
