Showing posts with label Demeter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Demeter. Show all posts

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Demeter

DEMETER was the great Olympian goddess of agriculture, grain, and bread, the prime sustenance of mankind. She also presided over the foremost of the Mystery Cults which promised its intiates the path to a blessed afterlife. Demeter was depicted as a mature woman, often crowned and holding sheafs of wheat and and a torch.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Hadrianus

127 - 128 A.D.
year 11 - IA
23mm x 23mm, 13.30 g.
Obv. - Hadrianus bust right:

Rev. - Demeter, 1

Hadrianus

137 - 138 A.D.
year 21 - KA
23mm x 23mm, 13.67 g.
Obv. - Hadrianus bust right:

Rev. - Demeter, 2

Hadrianus

137 - 138 A.D.
year 21 - KA
23mm x 23mm, 13.14 g.
Obv. - Hadrianus bust right:

Rev. - Demeter, 3