★ Metamorphosis of Ambrosia ★

Coele. Damascus. Philip I Arab AD 244-249.
Bronze Æ

30mm., 17,39g.

IMP • M • IVL • PHILIP-PVS • P F AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / [COL] DAM-AC • METROP, Ambrosia, nude, standing facing with her head turned to right, metamorphosing into a grape vine: her feet already in the form of a grape vine with leaves, and holding, with both hands, vine tendrils from which grape bunches hang.

very fine

De Saulcy -; Rosenberger 49 corr. (Philip II). From The Tareq Hani collection

Very rare type.