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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4204449, member: 75937&quot;]You got a great deal on that one.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one isn&#039;t a real looker, but it has Kabeiros. You&#039;ll note it&#039;s from Thessalonica. You are correct in noting that this god is rarely found in the Roman provincial series outside of Thessalonica in Macedonia. In pre-Roman times, coins depicting this deity are seen in issues of Birtys in Troas from the late 4th century BCE.</p><p><br /></p><p>The god Kabeiros is similar in appearance to Dionysos and the rites of his cult were likely similar to those of the Dionysian mysteries. The attributes of Kabeiros are a rhyton* and hammer.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/mamaea-thessalonica-jpg.612562/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Julia Mamaea, AD 226-235</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 24.7 mm, 10.46 gm</p><p>Macedonia, Thessalonica, AD 226-235</p><p>Obv: ΙΟVΛΙΑ ΜΑΜΑΙΑ ΑVΓ, diademed and draped bust, right</p><p>Rev: ΘΕCCΑΛΟΝΙΚΕΩΝ, Kabeiros standing facing, head left, holding rhyton and hammer.</p><p>Refs: Similar to SGI 3409; Varbanov 4484</p><p><br /></p><p>*A rhyton (plural rhyta) is an ancient Greek drinking horn or libation vessel. Horn shaped, the rhyton was filled by scooping wine or water into the wide mouth at the top with the thumb covering the hole at the bottom. To drink or pour the user removed their thumb to unstopper the hole at the bottom conical end and the fluid run into the mouth (or onto the ground or altar in libation).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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