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LOT 3008
Elagabalus AE 19mm of Charachmoba, Arabia. AD 218-222.
[Α Κ Μ ΑΥ ΑΝΤW]ΝΙΝΟ, laureate head to right; star before / XA-PAX-[...], platform with steps leading up to it, on which is column flanked by baetyls; to right, priest seated to left. Cf. RPC VI, 9365 (temporary); cf. Rosenberger 2; Sofaer 3 var. (bust). Near Very Fine.(6.32gr, 19mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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One of the most famous sacred stones was the Baetyl of Emesa, in Syria. This was a large, black conical stone sacred to the god Ilāh ha-Gabal (“God of the Mountain”), known to the Romans as El-Gabal or Elagabalus.
