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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2815321, member: 57495&quot;]<b>HIERAPOLIS</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]659784[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>PHRYGIA, Hierapolis</b></p><p><b>Civic Issue</b></p><p>AE28. 12.36g, 28mm. Circa AD 2nd-3rd centuries. RPC Online 2045; SNG Cop 428. O: IЄPAΠOΛЄI-TΩN, head of youthful Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath. R: The Abduction of Persephone: Hades in galloping quadriga right, carrying off struggling Persephone.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Notes on the city</b>:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Hierapolis was a city located in southwestern Anatolia.&nbsp; Apart from temples of Apollo, Artemis, Poseidon and Cybele, there was also a oracular shrine dedicated to Pluto located within a cave choked with carbon dioxide gas.&nbsp; The poisonous atmosphere of this Ploutonion allowed it to serve as a local gate to the underworld when rituals to the god were held.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Philip the Apostle spent his last years in Hierapolis.&nbsp; He was crucified in the town in AD 80 during the reign of the emperor Titus.&nbsp; A bronze bread stamp from the 6th century, now in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, shows Philip standing before his martyrium and a church containing his tomb, both of which have been discovered at the site of Hierapolis.&nbsp; </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]659786[/ATTACH] </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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