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Æ17 - Septimius Severus ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Hypaepa (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Artemis Anaïtis standing facing, fully veiled and draped in a long chiton, her arms extended slightly at her sides in the hieratic frontal pose characteristic of this syncretic Anatolian cult deity worshipped at Hypaepa. The goddess is depicted on a raised base or plinth, flanked by what appear to be attendant figures or cult objects. The ethnic legend ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ is distributed around the figure in the field, identifying the issuing civic community. |
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Hypaepa was a small Lydian city in the Cayster River valley, administratively folded into the conventus of Ephesus under the Roman provincial system. Its civic bronze issues under Severus are numismatically minor — low-denomination local currency struck to serve market transactions the imperial mint had no interest in supplying. The city is better known in ancient sources for its sanctuary of the Persian Artemis, a cult distinctly separate from the Ephesian Artemis and one of the few surviving traces of pre-Hellenistic religious continuity in the region.