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Æ24 - Domitian ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ ΜΑΡΝΑϹ
| Issuer | Ephesus (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 81-96 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (81-96) |
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Marnас is an otherwise obscure deity whose name appears on remarkably few provincial bronzes from Asia Minor, making its presence in the Ephesian civic coinage under Domitian a genuine puzzle. The cult connections are uncertain — the name has been linked to a Syrian rain-god worshipped at Gaza, though how or whether that association reached Ephesus remains unresolved in the scholarship.
Domitian's reign saw aggressive intervention in provincial religious life, and Ephesus was a city acutely sensitive to imperial favor, having competed fiercely with Smyrna and Pergamon for the title of neokoros.