Showing posts with label Chiton. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Figure 128

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Coin from Philadelphia Obv.: Showing the laureate head of Caracalla (AD 198–217) with inscription AYT K M AYR CE ANTWNEINOC, Magistrate Kl. Kapitonos. Rev.: EPI KL KAPITWNOC ARX A FL FILADELFEWN NEWKORWN, (neōkorōn). Depiction of a tetrastyle temple with curved architrave with Helios walking wearing short chiton and chlamys, and holding scepter over his shoulder (BMC 86 = SNGvA 2.3081).

Figure 126

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Coin from Philadelphia (AD 193–211). Obv.: ZEYC KORYFAIOC. Head of Zeus Koryphaeos with his hair bound by a taenia. Rev.: ΦIΛAΔEΛΦEΩN. Aphrodite is standing holding an apple in her outstretched left hand, while her right hand is raised drawing up the edge of her chiton (BMC 24; SNG Tübingen 3749; RPC 3.2385).

Figure 122

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Coin from Philadelphia. Obv.: ΔHMOC ΦIΛAΔEΛΦEΩN. Laureated head of Demos, son of Aphrodite (AD 198–268). Rev.: EPI P KAIKI KLEWNOC ARX A. Aphrodite standing right in a long chiton, holding an apple in her outstretched left hand and draping herself with a chiton which she draws over her right shoulder (Lindgren 1:774).

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