Syria, Cyrrhestica, Cyrrhus, Marcus Aurelius SNG UK 660
Marcus Aurelius AD 161-180
AE 23, 12.9g
obv. AVTO KM A[VRH] - ANTWNINOC CEB
Bust, laureate, r.
rev. [DIOC] KATEBATOV - KVRRHCTWN
Zeus Kataibates, in himation, std l. on rocks, resting r. arm on knee, holding 
thunderbolt in r. hand and leaning with l. hand on sceptre; l. before him eagle 
r. 
SNG UK 1301, 660
extremely rare, with attractive red earthen patina

Kataibates = descending (in lightning and thunder); epikleisis of Zeus as thunder-god, to whom places were sacrified which were struck by thunder (lat. putealis).

Contributed by Hans-Joachim, October, 2006.