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Æ17 - Antoninus Pius ΕΙϹΙϹ ϹΥΡΙωΝ
| Issuer | Syros (Achaea) |
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| Year | 147-161 |
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| Weight | 3.86 g |
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| Reverse description | Draped bust of Isis facing right, wearing the characteristic lotus flower atop her headdress, rendered in the Hellenistic tradition of Egyptian deity portraiture as adapted for provincial Roman coinage. The goddess is depicted with a distinctive tiered crown surmounted by the lotus, a standard iconographic attribute identifying her divinity. The encircling Greek legend ΕΙϹΙϹ ϹΥΡΙωΝ identifies the deity and the civic authority of the Syriotes. The overall style is consistent with the provincial bronzes of the Cycladic islands under Roman imperial administration. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Syros occupied an awkward position in the Roman imperial period — prosperous enough under earlier trade networks but increasingly marginal by the mid-second century, when larger Aegean centers dominated regional commerce. Local bronze issues of this kind were produced to meet small-denomination needs the imperial mint never bothered to address, and the civic authorities of the Cycladic islands retained that minting privilege largely by inertia rather than economic necessity. The ethnic legend ΕΙϹΙϹ ϹΥΡΙωΝ — "of the Syrians of Isis" — reflects the island's identification with the goddess whose cult had deep roots there long before Roman administration.