09-06-2010, 09:32 AM
Nick Secunda interpreted the bee from one 4th century coin.
The cult of Artemis in Ephesos was not of the "huntress" but a surviving cult of the "mother goddess".
The life giving bee was an appropriate symbol.
Early coinage shows the bee in profile but pottery fragments from National Museum Athens give an insight in colouring.
See attached images.
A red faced lecythos of 450 B.C from the excavations of the American Archeolocial School in the Athenian agora shows a black bee on
a bronze(?) surface.
Kind regards
The cult of Artemis in Ephesos was not of the "huntress" but a surviving cult of the "mother goddess".
The life giving bee was an appropriate symbol.
Early coinage shows the bee in profile but pottery fragments from National Museum Athens give an insight in colouring.
See attached images.
A red faced lecythos of 450 B.C from the excavations of the American Archeolocial School in the Athenian agora shows a black bee on
a bronze(?) surface.
Kind regards
HOPLITE14GR (aka Stefanos)
Phokean Ekdromos
http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com
Phokean Ekdromos
http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com