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Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus (died 217 AD). AE 22 mm. Parlais mint, Pisidia. Obv. IVLIA DOMNA AVG. Draped bust left. Rev. IVL AVG COL PARLAIS. Mên standing right, wearing Phrygian cap, holding pine cone and leaning on sceptre, foot on bukranion. Aulock, KM VI, T2, 26f. AE. 5.46 g. 22.00 mm. Earthen emerald green patina. VF. Mēn (Greek Μήν "month; Moon", presumably influenced by Avestan måŋha) was a lunar god worshipped in the western interior parts of Anatolia. He is attested in various localised variants, such as Mēn Askaenos in Antioch in Pisidia, or Mēn Pharnakou at Ameria in Pontus.
Mēn is often found in association with Persianate elements, especially with the goddess Anahita. Lunar symbolism dominates his iconography. The god is usually shown with the horns of a crescent emerging from behind his shoulders, and he is described as the god presiding over the (lunar) months. Strabo describes Mēn as a local god of the Phrygians. Mēn may be influenced by the Zoroastrian lunar divinity Mah.
Taşlıalan (1988) in a study of Antioch in Pisidia has remarked that the people who settled on the acropolis in the Greek colonial era carried the Mēn Askaenos cult down to the plain as Patrios Theos and in the place where the Augusteum was built there are some signs of this former cult as bucrania on the rock-cut walls. (Wikipedia).
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