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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 4206653, member: 82322"]I have never understood why the god on this coin is described as "Kabeiros". Perhaps because of the stars?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1078390[/ATTACH]</p><p>Birytis, circa 300 BC, AE10, 1.4g</p><p>Kabeiros l, wearing pilos, star above</p><p>ex Colosseum Coin Exchange, April 2003</p><p><br /></p><p>At this city we see heads in pointy hats, with and without beards. Is it a Kabeiros? Warwick Wroth, in his 1894 catalog of the British Museum collection, identified the head as "one of the Kabiri or the Dioskuri?" with no explanation. No explanation given in <i>Historia Numorum</i>. At some point the question mark and reference to the Dioskuri was dropped; trade catalogs just say "Kabeiros" today.</p><p><br /></p><p>At nearby Kebren Barclay Head wrote "The principal type is a ram, which may, perhaps, refer to some cultus of the Kabeiri at this town (von Fritze, <i>Z. f. N.</i>, xxiv. p. 115)."</p><p><br /></p><p>The Wikipedia article says nothing about hats, stars, or rams. I have no idea what von Fritze said in German a few centuries ago. Very frustrating to research these Troas coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 4206653, member: 82322"]I have never understood why the god on this coin is described as "Kabeiros". Perhaps because of the stars? [ATTACH=full]1078390[/ATTACH] Birytis, circa 300 BC, AE10, 1.4g Kabeiros l, wearing pilos, star above ex Colosseum Coin Exchange, April 2003 At this city we see heads in pointy hats, with and without beards. Is it a Kabeiros? Warwick Wroth, in his 1894 catalog of the British Museum collection, identified the head as "one of the Kabiri or the Dioskuri?" with no explanation. No explanation given in [I]Historia Numorum[/I]. At some point the question mark and reference to the Dioskuri was dropped; trade catalogs just say "Kabeiros" today. At nearby Kebren Barclay Head wrote "The principal type is a ram, which may, perhaps, refer to some cultus of the Kabeiri at this town (von Fritze, [I]Z. f. N.[/I], xxiv. p. 115)." The Wikipedia article says nothing about hats, stars, or rams. I have no idea what von Fritze said in German a few centuries ago. Very frustrating to research these Troas coins.[/QUOTE]
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