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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2811366, member: 42773"]Cremna was a city in Pisidia, of which very little is known. Its site was identified in 1874, but very little of its structures remain - just heaps of stones. Here's a really obscure one: Geta of Cremna with Mida seated reverse. Mida?...</p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="4">Mida, the Greek goddess of oaths, was principally worshipped in Phrygia. She was often equated with the earth and mother goddess Cybele - whose form she takes on this coin. Evidence of her worship, in fact, has caused one of the great archeological misconceptions of the modern era: the discovery of what was believed to be the tomb of King Midas at the site of Midas Sehr in the 19th Century was, in fact something less remarkable: a shrine dedicated to Mida as the equivalent of Cybele. - <a href="http://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=275" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=275" rel="nofollow">Asia Minor Coins</a></font></i></p><p><i><font size="4"><br /></font></i></p><p><i><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]657959[/ATTACH] </font></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2811366, member: 42773"]Cremna was a city in Pisidia, of which very little is known. Its site was identified in 1874, but very little of its structures remain - just heaps of stones. Here's a really obscure one: Geta of Cremna with Mida seated reverse. Mida?... [I][SIZE=4]Mida, the Greek goddess of oaths, was principally worshipped in Phrygia. She was often equated with the earth and mother goddess Cybele - whose form she takes on this coin. Evidence of her worship, in fact, has caused one of the great archeological misconceptions of the modern era: the discovery of what was believed to be the tomb of King Midas at the site of Midas Sehr in the 19th Century was, in fact something less remarkable: a shrine dedicated to Mida as the equivalent of Cybele. - [URL='http://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=275']Asia Minor Coins[/URL] [ATTACH=full]657959[/ATTACH] [/SIZE][/I][/QUOTE]
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