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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4597395, member: 75937&quot;]Say what?! That&#039;s not what the mysterious poet with the pseudonym of Senex Caecilius has to say about it!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The Artemision</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Higgledy-Piggledy</p><p>Temple of Artemis,</p><p>Wonder of Wonders, in</p><p>Ephesus stood;</p><p>Housed in the shrine was a</p><p>Multimammiferous</p><p>Symbol of fruitfulness</p><p>Carved out of wood.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my provincial of Faustina II with a similar cult statue from the Artemision in Neapolis.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1138622[/ATTACH]</p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 19.8 mm, 5.32 g.</p><p>Samaria, Neapolis, AD 161/162.</p><p>Obv: ΦΑVCΤЄΙΝΑΝ CΕΒΑCΤΗΝ, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: ΦΛ ΝЄΑC ΠΟΛЄѠC CVΡ ΠΑΛЄ, cultus-statue, resembling Ephesian Artemis, standing facing, flanked by stags; her head-dress surmounted by small temple; across field, ЄΤ-Ϟ (= year 90 of the Era of Neapolis = AD 161/162).</p><p>Refs: RPC IV.3 <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/6348" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/6348" rel="nofollow">6348</a>; BMC 68-69; SNG Cop 17; cf. Sear 1801; cf Wiczay 6204.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the identity of the two figures on the reverse of [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] &#039;s Faustina provincial, I have no idea. I&#039;d ask [USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER] ; he&#039;s our resident expert on mythological types.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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