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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 25880253, member: 103829&quot;]Dear friends of antiquity!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have had this coin in my collection for 15 years. Yesterday I came across it again and realised that it is still not precisely identified. The question concerns the iconography!</p><p><br /></p><p>Moesia inferior, Markianopolis, Severus Alexander, 222-235</p><p>AE 25, 9.98g, 24.61mm, 15°</p><p>struck under governor Iulius Gaetulicus </p><p>Obv.: AV K M AV CEV AΛEZANΔPOC (Z retrograde)</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Bust, draped and cuirassed, laureate, n.r.</p><p>Rev: VΠ IOV ΓETOVΛIKO - V - MAPKIANOΠOΛ</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; in field in 3 lines I / T - W / N (N retrograde)</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Dionysos(?), nude, bearded, with topknot and braids to shoulders, </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; without boots, standing left, Stand- und Spielbein, leaning with his left </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; hand on the thyrsos(?) with pine cones(?) above and below, holding a wreath in&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; his lowered right hand</p><p>Ref.: a) AMNG I/1, 989 corr. (wreath misinterpreted as kantharos)</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; b) Varbanov 1756 corr. (citing AMNG 989)</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; c) Hristova/Jekov (2014) No.6.32.8.1 corr. (same die, but forgets the ligature of&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; AP)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1649012[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>AMNG, HrJ and Varbanov all write Dionysos with Kantharos. But the object in his right hand looks more like a wreath or even more like a pearl necklace!</p><p>Curtis Clay wrote at the time: Yes, clearly a wreath or a looped garland!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not aware of any depiction of Dionysos holding a bandage. That&#039;s why I wonder whether it&#039;s Dionysos at all. The so-called Thyrsos could also be a sceptre.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone know of a mythology in which Dionysos and a wreath play a role?</p><p>Or who could the figure represent if it is perhaps not Dionysos?</p><p><br /></p><p>Kind regards</p><p>Jochen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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