The Development of Hindu Iconography c8.13

c8.13

² Not to speak of very well-known examples, we can refer to the coin-types of two inland Cretan cities of Rhaucus and Sybrita. The former state had a cult of Poseidon Hippios. "The god holding a trident stands beside his horse"; Dionysus and Hermes were the gods of Sybrita and appeared as obverse and reverse devices of her coins: C. Seltman, Greek Coins, p. 173.