AR Obol CILICIA, TARSOS - PERSIAN RULE - FARNABAZU (PHARNABAZOS), PERSIAN MILITARY COMMANDER, CIRCA 380-373 BC - vf-

weight 0,64gr. | silver Ø 10mm.

obv. Baaltars seated right, holding eagle and lotus-tipped scepter,
monogram behind
rev. Baaltars(?) nude, standing right, holding eagle and short scepter,
Aramaic legend “TRZ” behind

In 379 BC Farnabazu (Pharnabazos), satrap of Daskyon in Bithynia, was given the task of reconquering Egypt for the Persian Empire. Tarkumuwa (Datames), satrap of Cappadocia, was later appointed to assist him. To finance this undertaking large quantities of silver staters were struck in Cilicia, mostly at Tarsos but also in other Cilician cities.
Ba′al was the title of various Gods of fertility, weather, rain, wind, lightning, seasons, war, patron of sailors and sea-going merchants, leader of the Rephaim (ancestral spirits). In fact Ba′al was a title and honorific meaning ″owner″, ″lord″ in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. In Sumerian EN, the Akkadian Bēlu and Northwest Semitic Ba′al was used as a title of various deities in the Mesopotamian and Semitic pantheons. Only a definitive article, genitive or epithet, or context could establish which particular god was meant. Ba′al was also used as a proper name by the third millennium BC, when he appears in a list of deities at Abu Salabik ( a small Sumerian city around 20 km northwest of the site of ancient Nippur. The Phoenician Ba′al is generally identified with either El or Dagan. Also in Cana′an Ba′al was worshipped under various names, also as El | the leader of the gods and patron of kingship, who was connected to the regions′ dependence on rainfall for its agriculture. He fought various mythical snake-monsters asthe Yammu (now generally regarded as the prototype of the vision recorded in the 7th chapter of the biblical Book of Daniel), Tannin and Litan. In Cana′an we also know Ba′al as Mot, the Canaanite death god, he was known as Ba′al Rāpi′uma. Also the Hebrean God Jah-Weh was a synonym for Ba′al and means the same "Lord". So Ba′al was not one God, but a synonym for a range of various Gods in ancient antiquity. BMC - | SNG France - | SNG Schweiz (Levante) 67
SNG Copenhagen - | Weber - | Rosen coll. - | Slg. Klein -
McClean - | SNG von Aulock - | Göktürk 19-20 | Sear -  RR
a very rare coin type
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