PHILIP II Roman Caesar Provincial Mint Ancient Coin CYBELE with LIONS i48882

Item: i48882

Authentic Ancient

Coin of:

Philip II
  –
Roman Caesar
: 244-249 A.D. –

Bronze 21mm (4.57 grams) of
Roman provincial mint

Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Cybele seated left in turreted crown, holding patera & drum, lion
either side of
her.  Description

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Cybele  (Phrygian:
Matar Kubileya/Kubeleya “Kubeleyan Mother”, perhaps “Mountain
Mother”;
Lydian
Kuvava;
Greek
: Kybele,) was an originally
Anatolian

mother goddess
. Little is known of her oldest
Anatolian cults, other than her association with mountains, hawks and lions. She
may have been Phrygia
‘s state deity; her Phrygian cult was
adopted and adapted by Greek colonists of
Asia Minor
and spread from there to mainland
Greece and its more distant
western colonies
from around the 6th century
BCE.

In Greece, Cybele met with a mixed reception. She was partially assimilated
to aspects of the Earth-goddess
Gaia
, her
Minoan
equivalent
Rhea
, and the Corn-Mother goddess
Demeter
. Some city-states, notably
Athens
, evoked her as a protector, but her most
celebrated Greek rites and processions show her as an essentially foreign,
exotic mystery-goddess who arrives in a lion-drawn chariot to the accompaniment
of wild music, wine, and a disorderly, ecstatic following. Uniquely in Greek
religion, she had a
transgender
or
eunuch

mendicant
priesthood. Many of her Greek cults
included rites to a divine Phrygian castrate shepherd-consort
Attis
, who was probably a Greek invention. In
Greece, Cybele is associated with
mountains
, town and city walls, fertile nature,
and wild animals, especially

lions.

In Rome, Cybele was known as Magna Mater (“Great Mother”). The Roman State
adopted and developed a particular form of her cult, and claimed her
conscription as a key religious component in their success against Carthage
during the Punic Wars
.
Roman mythographers
reinvented her as a

Trojan goddess, and thus an ancestral goddess of the Roman people by
way of the Trojan prince
Aeneas
. With Rome’s eventual
hegemony
over the Mediterranean world,
Romanised forms of Cybele’s cults spread throughout the Roman Empire. The
meaning and morality of her cults and priesthoods were topics of debate and
dispute in Greek and Roman literature, and remain so in modern scholarship.

Marcus

Julius Philippus Severus, also known as Philippus II, Philip II

and Philip the Younger (238 – 249) was the son and heir of the

Roman

Emperor

Philip the Arab

by his wife Roman Empress

Marcia Otacilia Severa

. According to numismatic evidence, he had a sister

called Julia Severa or Severina, whom the ancient Roman sources do not mention.

When his father became emperor in 244 he was appointed

Caesar

. Philippus was

consul
in 247

and 248. His father was killed in battle by his successor

Decius
in 249.

When news of this death reached Rome, he was murdered by the

Praetorian Guard

. He died in his mother’s arms. When he died, he was eleven

years old.