Коллеги, может кто растолковать, что за два священных камня на монетах Тиры?
Gordian III, AE30 of Tyre, Phoenicia. IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / COL TVR METR, The Ambrosial Rocks (baetyls) between an incense altar on the left and olive tree on the right. Small crescent to left and right. AMBROSIE PETRE and murex shell in exergue. Rouvier 2437; Babelon 2271; Mionnet 681. (BMC 429 var - different rev. legends).
Elagabalus, AE28 of Tyre, Phoenicia. 11.71 gr. IMP CAES M AN-TONINVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / TV-RI-O-RVM, sacred olive tree flanked by two baetyl stones, wolf or hound walking left finding murex on left in ex. Rouvier 2391; SNG Righetti 2344.
И даже у Геракла они же....
*PHOENICIA, Tyre. /Julia Domna. /*Augusta, AD 193-217. Æ 28mm (16.54 g,
6h). Draped bust right / Hercules standing left, with lion skin over
forearm and holding club, pouring libation from phiale over lighted
altar; ambrosial stones above; at feet to left, murex. Rouvier -; AUB
205; SNG Copenhagen-. VF, blue-black patina. Rare.