Assarion - Hadrian ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ ΜΑΡϹΥΑϹ ΚΙΒΩΤΟΙ

Apamea's civic coinage under Hadrian drew heavily on the city's founding mythology — the Marsyas connection references the Phrygian river deity, while the Kibōtos ("chest" or "ark") epithet attached to the city name reflects a local tradition identifying Apamea as the resting place of Noah's Ark, a belief so entrenched that the city had been minting flood-related imagery since at least the Severan period on some issues. The Marsyas cult was distinctly local, tied to the river of the same name on which the city sat.