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Æ24 - Caracalla ΕΠ Μ ΑΥΡ ΓΑΙΟΥ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ ϹΙΠΥΛΟΥ
| Issuer | City of Magnesia ad Sipylum (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC V.2#70174 |
| Obverse description | Draped bust of Julia Domna facing right, her hair elaborately waved and coiled in the characteristic Severan style. The empress is depicted with a slightly idealized portrait, the drapery rendered across the shoulder and chest. The encircling Greek legend runs around the periphery of the flan, partially visible despite wear. The flan shows an irregular edge with some surface corrosion consistent with a provincial bronze issue. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Cybele, the Anatolian mother goddess, seated and enthroned to the left, holding a patera in her right hand and a long sceptre in her left, with a tympanum resting at her left side. A lion, sacred to Cybele, crouches at her feet to the left, reflecting the deep religious significance of the cult at Magnesia ad Sipylum. The Greek legend naming the local magistrate Marcus Aurelius Gaius and the civic ethnic of the Magnesians of the Sipylus encircles the design. The reverse type underscores Magnesia's special devotion to Cybele, whose mythological seat on Mount Sipylus lay in the city's immediate hinterland. |
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