Erythraean Sibyl

The Erythraean Sibyl was the prophetess of classical antiquity presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Erythrae, a town in Ionia opposite Chios, which was built by Neleus, the son of Codrus.

[1] At least one is said to have been from Chaldea, a nation in the southern portion of Babylonia, being the daughter of Berossus (who wrote the Chaldean history) and Erymanthe.

Apollodorus of Erythrae, however, says that one who was his own countrywoman predicted the Trojan War and prophesied to the Greeks both that Troy would be destroyed and that Homer would write falsehoods.

[2] The Erythraean Sibyl is believed to have made extremely precise statements regarding the coming of Christ.

[3] In Christian iconography, the Erythraean Sibyl is credited with prophesying the coming of the Redeemer, which prophecy was in the form of an acrostic whose initial letters spelled out "ΙΗΣΌΎΣ ΧΡΕΙΣΤΟΣ ΘΕΟΥ ΎΊΟΣ ΣΩΤΗΡ ΣΤΑΎΡΟΣ" ("Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior, Cross).

Michelangelo's rendering of the Erythraean Sibyl (detail of the Sistine Chapel ceiling)
Coin of 46 BC with image of the Erythraean Sibyl Herophile with hair elaborately decorated with jewels and enclosed in a sling, tied with bands.
Erythraean Sibyl as a floor mosaic in the Cathedral of Siena , Italy