Bostra became the capital of the new province of Arabia Petraea after Trajan's annexation in 106 AD, and the city wasted little time establishing a civic coinage that proclaimed its provincial status. The abbreviated ethnic on this issue — ΤΡΑΙ ΒΟϹ, for Trajane Bostra — preserves the honorific name the city received from its conqueror and retained through the Antonine period and beyond, long after Trajan himself was dead.
Bostra became the capital of the new province of Arabia Petraea after Trajan's annexation in 106 AD, and the city wasted little time establishing a civic coinage that proclaimed its provincial status. The abbreviated ethnic on this issue — ΤΡΑΙ ΒΟϹ, for Trajane Bostra — preserves the honorific name the city received from its conqueror and retained through the Antonine period and beyond, long after Trajan himself was dead.