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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8222062, member: 87809&quot;]Beautiful Artemis &amp; Diana coins, and great write-up [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>An Artemis Anaïtis. </p><p>On coins, she resembles the Ephesian Artemis,</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1444271[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>but has a tall kalathos on her head, supporting a veil which falls all the way to the ground on both sides of her body.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Greek and Roman historians transliterate Anahita as Anaïtis. Anahita&#039;s cult was widely spread in northeast Persia but her origin is uncertain. Her name means “untouched, pure”.</p><p><br /></p><p>Phrygia, Apameia, ca. 88 - 40 BC, modern Dinar, Turkey. </p><p>22 x 21 mm, 7.623 g</p><p>BMC 87; SNG Ashmolean 976; SNG Copenhagen 175; HGC 7, 672; Sear 5121</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Laureate head of Zeus right.</p><p>Rev.: ΑΠΑΜΕ / MENEK / ΔIOΔ. (magistrates Menek(leous) and Diod(dorus) in two lines. Facing statue of Artemis Anaïtis.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1444275[/ATTACH] </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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