Kindyas

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Kindyas was the epithet for Artemis in Bargylia. This is what Polybius said about her.

The town has a circumference of ten stades. It is reported and believed by the Bargylians that no snow nor rain ever falls on the statue of Artemis Kindyas, although it stands in the open air, but by the Iasians the same story is told about the statue of Astias. But I myself throughout my whole work have consistently viewed such statements by historians with a certain opposition and repugnance.


Artemis | Caduceus | Drachm | Kindyas | Stag | Veiled
Caria, Bargylia
2nd-1st centuries BCE
AR Drachm 2.08g 16.62mm
Obv: Veiled head of Artemis Kindyas right
Rev: Stag standing right; kerykeion below.
SNG von Aulock 8074 var. (symbol); SNG Keckman 22-4 var. (same)