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Philip I Æ29 of Heliopolis, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 244-249. IMP CAES M IVL PHILIPPVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / COL IVL AVG CL HEL, aerial view of cult precinct of Hermes-Simios containing temple, altar, and urn, with approaching stairway on rocky and wooded outcropping; caduceus in left field. SNG Copenhagen 435; Price & Trell 703. 15.42g, 29mm, 1h.
Good Very Fine. Very Rare.
Although traditionally described as the Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus at Baalbek, Price & Trell, noting the associated caduceus, identify it as the Temple of Mercury, located on the nearby hill of Shekj 'Addallah. Simios is the Semitic deity assimilated to the Greco-Roman Hermes-Mercury.
Good Very Fine. Very Rare.
Although traditionally described as the Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus at Baalbek, Price & Trell, noting the associated caduceus, identify it as the Temple of Mercury, located on the nearby hill of Shekj 'Addallah. Simios is the Semitic deity assimilated to the Greco-Roman Hermes-Mercury.