Savoca Coins
Online Auction 25 | Silver 16 Sep 2018
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Ionia. Magnesia ad Maeander. Marcus Aurelius as Caesar AD 139-161. ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΗΣ ΓΡΑΤΟΥ (Dioskourides, son of Gratos), magistrate or Grammateus
Bronze Æ
30mm., 13,45g.
Μ ΑΙΛΙΟC ΑVPHΛIOC BHPOC KAICAP, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / EΠI ΔIOCK-OVPIΔO-V ΓP MAΓNHTΩΝ [NEΩKOP?], the infant Zeus (or Dionysos) seated on short column (or cista mystica) and raising both hands, surrounded by two Curetes (or Corybantes) helmeted and clad in short tunics, dancing and beating their shields with their swords.
very fine
BMC Ionia -; Imhoof-Blumer -; Mionnet -; RPC online -; SNG von Aulock -; Isegrim -.
The Curetes, were dancers, who kept time to a drum and the rhythmic stamping of their feet for the protection of the infant Zeus, while he was hidden away on Crete, safe from his cannibal father Kronos. Their militant dancing, accompanied by the clashing of swords on shields, drowned out the cries of the infant.
The Corybantes were a kind of inspired people, inclined to dancing and to religious frenzy, and worship the Mother of the Gods Rhea with orgies. They have been called also guardians of Dionysos.
Bronze Æ
30mm., 13,45g.
Μ ΑΙΛΙΟC ΑVPHΛIOC BHPOC KAICAP, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / EΠI ΔIOCK-OVPIΔO-V ΓP MAΓNHTΩΝ [NEΩKOP?], the infant Zeus (or Dionysos) seated on short column (or cista mystica) and raising both hands, surrounded by two Curetes (or Corybantes) helmeted and clad in short tunics, dancing and beating their shields with their swords.
very fine
BMC Ionia -; Imhoof-Blumer -; Mionnet -; RPC online -; SNG von Aulock -; Isegrim -.
The Curetes, were dancers, who kept time to a drum and the rhythmic stamping of their feet for the protection of the infant Zeus, while he was hidden away on Crete, safe from his cannibal father Kronos. Their militant dancing, accompanied by the clashing of swords on shields, drowned out the cries of the infant.
The Corybantes were a kind of inspired people, inclined to dancing and to religious frenzy, and worship the Mother of the Gods Rhea with orgies. They have been called also guardians of Dionysos.