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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 3273280, member: 103829&quot;]Euposia is one of my favourite deities. The source is Eubosia in Phrygia. About 10 year I have seached for an available specimen. Now I found one for an affordable price:</p><p><br /></p><p>Phrygia, Hierapolis, pseudo-autonomous, 2nd-3rd century AD</p><p>AE 27, 11.72g, 180°</p><p>obv. IERAPOLEI - TWN (from upper Right)</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Head of Dionysos wearing ivy wreath r.</p><p>rev. EUBO - CIA (from lower left)</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Demeter Euposia, in long garment and mantle, stg. l., holding in extended r. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; hand 2 grain ears and in l. arm cornucopiae on which the baby Ploutos is sitting </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; and stretching the arms for her</p><p>ref. cf. Künker Auc. 193, Sept. 2011, Lot 263</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; unpublished in greater works</p><p>very rare, F+, olive green patina</p><p>Pedigree:</p><p>ex Bertolami Fine Arts E-Auction 49, November 2011, Lot 484 (in error referenced as von Aulock Pisidien I, 891-7. But that is Decius from Isinda!)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]863671[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>More often Euposia is depicted as Tyche with rudder. But here it is the rarer variant as Demeter Euposia with 2 grain ears. I found this type only 4x in the web. Eubosia is translated &quot;good pasture&quot;, and Eubosia is the Phrygian goddess of fertiliy and welfare. So she is easily identified with the Greek Demeter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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