Stobi in Macedonia, 209-217 AD.,Caracalla, 2 Assaria, cf. AMNG 13.
Stobi in Macedonia, Caracalla, struck 209-217 AD.,
Diassarion / Æ23 (23-24 mm / 6.77 g),
Obv.: AG M AVR - ANTONINVS , radiate bust of Caracalla right.
Rev.: MVNICI - STOBEN , Serapis standing left, wearing polos (the original wicker basket), raising right hand and holding a snake in left.
cf. AMNG III, 113, 13 (rev. pl. XXI.31) ; for a shared reverse die see whitetd49´s JulDomStobi2.JPG .
whitetd49: "a new die pair and obverse die"
Pat Lawrence: "Actually, the original kalathos was a wicker basket, the kind that women spinning deposited the accumulating balls of yarn in. They also were used for making offerings, and very soon (already by c 700 BCE) became miniaturized. But when you wanted a flaring headpiece, as when an Archaic caryatid needed something to make her weight-bearing function less implausible, and later for Serapis, since (I suspect) Egyptian gods did have large, tall crowns, the word for a basket persisted but the think was not like wicker. In modern, kathareuousa, Greek the word for a waste basket (e.g., beside your desk) is kalathos achrêstôn."