Month: June 2013

archaicwonder:

Sacred Stone on a Silver Stater from Kaunos in Caria, c. 410-390 BC

On the obverse is the winged figure of Isis either kneeling or running. She’s holding a wreath and a kerykeion (caduceus, a staff carried by messengers of the gods). On the reverse is an obelisk-shaped baetyl (a sacred stone) with the inverted letter delta on one side and the letter gamma on the other. All is within an incuse square.

Baetylus or sacred stones could be found in many places across the ancient world. They represented the essence of a deity. They were iconic symbols of the gods, indicating that the gods were present and accessible.

One of these sacred stones was found in Kaunos in the rubble of a 3rd century temple. The stone, an obelisk, had split in two and was in the center of a circle of columns. It was limestone, over 4 meters high and 1.5 meters wide. Originally, the stone was out in the open until a temple was built around it.  The obelisk-shaped baetyl was the symbol of King Kaunos, who according to mythology, established the ancient city bearing his name.

Kaunos was a city in ancient Caria, a coastal region of southwestern Anatolia in modern day Turkey.

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