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Caracalla Æ 23mm of Aegium, Achaea. AD 198-217. ΜΑΡ ΑV[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / Eileithyia, wearing long dress and mural crown(?), standing to left, holding two torches, one vertically in upraised right hand, the other downward in left, [ΑΙΓΙ]ЄWΝ around. Kroll, Aigion 64 var. (position of torches transposed); NCP, p.83 var. (same). 4.77g, 23mm, 1h.
Very Fine; earthen repatination. Extremely Rare.
From a private English collection.
Eileithyia was the goddess of birth and daughter of Zeus and Hera. She was considered to have two functions, either to further childbirth or to protract and delay the labour. Pausanias describes a sanctuary dedicated to Eileithyia at Aegium containing a statue by Damophon the Messenian which may have inspired this type (Paus. VII, 23.5-6).
Very Fine; earthen repatination. Extremely Rare.
From a private English collection.
Eileithyia was the goddess of birth and daughter of Zeus and Hera. She was considered to have two functions, either to further childbirth or to protract and delay the labour. Pausanias describes a sanctuary dedicated to Eileithyia at Aegium containing a statue by Damophon the Messenian which may have inspired this type (Paus. VII, 23.5-6).