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Æ - Hadrianus Gaza
| Issuer | Gaza |
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| Year | 134-135 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, laureate bust of Emperor Hadrian facing right, with characteristic short beard and draped paludamentum visible at the shoulder truncation. The imperial effigy is rendered in the standard provincial style of the eastern workshops, with the legend distributed around the periphery of the flan. The Greek inscription identifying the emperor as Autocrator Caesar Aelius Traianus Hadrianus runs along the outer border. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Herakles depicted nude, standing facing with head turned to the left, holding a club in his right hand and a lion-skin draped over his left arm. To the left of the figure appears the symbol of Marnas, the chief deity of Gaza, serving as a civic emblem. A date numeral is present in the field, recording regnal year 6 of the local Gaza era corresponding to 134/135 CE. The legend ΓΑΖΑ with the magistrate's name and date formula is distributed across the field. |
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