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Æ21 - Septimius Severus ΤΑΒΑΛΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Tabala (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Julia Domna facing right, her hair elaborately waved and coiled at the nape in the characteristic Severan style. The effigy fills the field with fine provincial workmanship, the drapery rendered in layered folds across the shoulder and chest. The encircling Greek legend reads ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Reverse description | Cybele, the Phrygian mother goddess, enthroned and seated left upon a high-backed throne, her right hand extended holding a patera and her left arm resting upon a tympanum. A lion, her sacred attribute, is depicted at her feet to the left. The encircling ethnic legend ΤΑΒΑΛΕΩΝ runs around the periphery within a beaded border, identifying this issue as struck in the name of the civic community of Tabala. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΤΑΒΑΛΕΩΝ (Translation: of the Tabaleans) |
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