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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2804952, member: 57495"]<b>Apameia </b>in Phrygia</p><p>[ATTACH=full]654971[/ATTACH] <b>HADRIAN</b></p><p>AE22. 4.10g, 22mm. PHRYGIA, Apameia, AD 117-138. SNG Cop 211; BMC 155. O: AΔPIANOC KAI CЄB, laureate head right, with slight drapery. R: AΠAMЄΩN MAPCVAC [KIBΩTOI], Marsyas reclining within a rocky cave, holding cornucopia and double flute; above, five chests; beneath, inverted vase from which water.</p><p><br /></p><p>Located near the source of the River Marsyas, the city of Apameia was named by the Seleukid king Antiochos I after his mother, Apama. Apameia was also known by the sobriquet <i>Kibotos</i>, or The Chest, alluding to either its great wealth as a trading emporium, or perhaps, and more likely, for the ubiquitous wooden packing crates that were used by the city's trade middlemen to re-pack goods bound from Egypt and Asia to Greece and later, the Roman Empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>The story of the city is told in the mythopoeic scene on the reverse of this coin, the legend naming the essential elements - AΠAMЄΩN (Apameia) MAPCVAC (Marsyas) KIBΩTOIA (<i>kibotoi</i>, or chests).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2804952, member: 57495"][B]Apameia [/B]in Phrygia [ATTACH=full]654971[/ATTACH] [B]HADRIAN[/B] AE22. 4.10g, 22mm. PHRYGIA, Apameia, AD 117-138. SNG Cop 211; BMC 155. O: AΔPIANOC KAI CЄB, laureate head right, with slight drapery. R: AΠAMЄΩN MAPCVAC [KIBΩTOI], Marsyas reclining within a rocky cave, holding cornucopia and double flute; above, five chests; beneath, inverted vase from which water.[B][/B] Located near the source of the River Marsyas, the city of Apameia was named by the Seleukid king Antiochos I after his mother, Apama. Apameia was also known by the sobriquet [I]Kibotos[/I], or The Chest, alluding to either its great wealth as a trading emporium, or perhaps, and more likely, for the ubiquitous wooden packing crates that were used by the city's trade middlemen to re-pack goods bound from Egypt and Asia to Greece and later, the Roman Empire. The story of the city is told in the mythopoeic scene on the reverse of this coin, the legend naming the essential elements - AΠAMЄΩN (Apameia) MAPCVAC (Marsyas) KIBΩTOIA ([I]kibotoi[/I], or chests).[/QUOTE]
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