Æ19 - Domitian ΡΩΜΗ

This Alexandria civic issue falls within Year 4 of Domitian's reign, a period when the emperor was consolidating administrative control over Egypt — already Rome's most tightly managed province, governed directly through a prefect rather than a senatorial proconsul precisely because Augustus feared its grain wealth in the hands of a rival. The ΡΩΜΗ type places the personification of Rome herself on an Alexandrian bronze, a pointed reminder of the city's subordinate relationship to the capital.