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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 26227121, member: 128351&quot;]Very interesting coin, yes, and of course scarce like most of the large city-coins. The Tyche of Damascus seems to have been designed after the Tyche of Antioch in the early 1st c. BC. The oldest coins on which she is represented date back to the Nabataean occupation of the city under Aretas III &quot;Philhellene&quot;. She is a tyche draped, wearing a mural crown, sitting on a rock, holding a cornucopia and extending her right hand which holds a certain vertical object (what was it?), at her feet a river-god swimming, it must be the &quot;Chrysorrhoas&quot;, today Wadi Barada. The Tyche of Damascus will be represented on coins of this city until the end of local coinage under Valerian, always seen from profile (unlike the Tyche of Antioch who may frequently be represented from front). </p><p><br /></p><p>On your coin the small figure on the left is a Marsyas, symbol of the promotion of the city to colonial status. On the lower register there are four other standing tyches wearing mural crowns and raising hand, number 3 is sacrificing on altar. I don&#039;t know what they mean... </p><p><br /></p><p>The early 3rd c. BC statue of the Tyche of Antioch by Eutychides has been the prototype of many other tyches in Syria and Mesopotamia. As far as I noticed, the southernmost &quot;eutychidian&quot; Tyche is probably the Tyche of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan) seen on local coins of Marcus Aurelius and Elagabalus. </p><p><br /></p><p>In Doura Europos there was a 3rd c. fresco (now at the Yale University) from the Temple of Palmyrene Gods showing the tribune Julius Terentius sacrificing in front of a group of statues, the three sanding Bel, Yahribol and Aglibol, and two seated &quot;eutychidian&quot; tyches withy their names in Greek, today unreadable : &quot;Tyche of the Palmyrenes&quot; and &quot;Tyche of Doura&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1675024[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There is an old drawing attempting to restore the image, but it may not be 100% accurate :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1675027[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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