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Æ28 - Severus Alexander ΑΜΒΛΑΔΕΩΝ ΛΑΚΕΔΑ
| Issuer | Amblada (Lycia et Pamphylia) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Cybele, the Anatolian mother goddess, seated facing left upon a throne or high-backed chair, flanked on either side by a recumbent lion; she holds what appears to be a patera in her extended right hand. The type reflects the strong local veneration of Cybele in Pisidia and Asia Minor more broadly. The Greek civic legend of the Ambladeans is distributed around the field. The overall relief is worn but the principal iconographic elements remain identifiable. |
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Amblada was a minor Pisidian city — technically administered under the Roman province of Lycia et Pamphylia — that retained the right to strike civic bronze well into the third century. The pairing with Lakedaimon (Sparta) in the coin's legend reflects a documented practice of Pisidian and Pamphylian cities claiming fictive ethnic kinship with prestigious Greek poleis, a form of civic identity politics with no military or administrative substance behind it. Amblada's claim to Spartan ancestry appears on several issues and was almost certainly a local initiative rather than anything sanctioned by Rome.