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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 5188148, member: 103829&quot;]Thank you for your comments. The following coin is an essential part of the great Demeter theme:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The procession of the Kalathos of Demeter</b></p><p><b>&nbsp;</b></p><p><b>The Coin:</b></p><p>Titus, 79-81 AD</p><p>AR - Denar, 3.22g, 18.14mm, 180</p><p>Rome, January - June 79 (as Caesar)</p><p>Obv.: T CAESAR IMP VESPASIANUS (from lower r. counterclockwise)</p><p>Laureate bust r.</p><p>Rev.: TRP VIII COS VII</p><p>slow quadriga l., on top of it high, garlands-decorated basket with grain ears</p><p>Ref:: RIC II, (Vepasian) 206var (Quadriga r.); CBN (Vespasian) 226-7 and pl. XXXIV; C.336; BMC 256</p><p>scarce, good VF, old cabinet tint</p><p>Pedigree:</p><p>ex coll. Lawrence　M. Woolslayer (certificate of David Sear, 13.12.2005)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1213870[/ATTACH]</p><p>&quot;The quadriga with the basket of corn-ears shows the procession of the <i>calathus</i> of Ceres, sung by Callimachus in his hymn; it already had appeared on coins of the moneyers of Augustus in 17 BC. It is unmistakenly derived from Alexandria, and suggests the importance of Egypt as the granary of Rome, even besides any endeavours of the Emperor to revive Italian agriculture.&quot;</p><p>(Mattingly, BMCR II, p. xIii)</p><p><br /></p><p><b> The hymn of Kallimachos:</b></p><p>&quot;[Begin singing], virgins, and sing the chorus, mothers: &#039;Demeter, cordially welcome, you much nourishing, you many bushelful! And just as the light-haired mares bring the holy basket, four in number, so will the great Goddess come to us, reigning far and wide, bringing a glorious spring, a bright summer and winter, and the autumn, year after year she will shield us.</p><p>(Kallimachos, Hymnos VI, 118th translation by by me, Kallimachos, Works, 2004 WBG)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Note:</b></p><p>Kallimachos of Cyrene (305-240 BC,) was a significant Hellenistic poet and scholar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best regards[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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