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Æ27 - Trajan Decius ϹΕΠ ΡΗϹΑΙΝΗϹΙωΝ L III P
| Issuer | Rhesaena (Mesopotamia) |
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| Year | 249-251 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A tetrastyle temple depicted in three-quarter perspective with a pitched roof, enclosing a frontal eagle with wings closed and head turned. In the exergue, a river god identified as the Chaboras (Khabur River) is shown reclining and swimming between two palm trees, a distinctive iconographic element reflecting the local geography of the Rhesaena region. The reverse legend naming the Septimian colony and the Legio III Parthica is distributed around the design in the field. The overall composition combines Roman imperial religious imagery with distinctly local Mesopotamian topographical allusion. |
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| Reverse lettering | ϹΕΠ ΡΗϹΑΙΝΗϹΙωΝ L III P (Translation: the Septimian colony of Rhesaenians, 3rd Parthian legion) |
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