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Æ29 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ Ϲ Γ ΚΛ ΓΛΥΚΩΝΟϹ ΡΟΥΦΕΙΝΙΑΝΟΥ ΙΠΠΙΚΟΥ Γ ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | City of Pergamum (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Hygieia, goddess of health, depicted standing and facing right, extending a patera in her right hand from which a large serpent coils upward to feed. The figure is rendered in the classical style typical of Pergamene civic coinage, with drapery falling to the feet. A lengthy Greek magistrate's legend encircles the entire field, referencing the issuing strategos and the city's neocorate status. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ Ϲ Γ ΚΛ ΓΛΥΚΩΝΟϹ ΡΟΥΦΕΙΝΙΑΝΟΥ ΙΠΠΙΚΟΥ Γ ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ (Translation: under strategos Gaius Claudius Glykon, son of Rufinianus, equestrian, thrice neocorate, of the Pergamenes) |
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Pergamum held the title of neokoros — temple warden of the imperial cult — multiple times over, and the triple neokorate designation on this issue reflects the city's extraordinary success in accumulating that honor. The magistrate named in the legend, Claudius Glycon Roufinianus, held the office of hippikos, a rank tied to the Roman equestrian order, making him one of the more precisely documented local officials to appear on Pergamene civic bronze. Such named magistrate issues allow prosopographers to cross-reference individuals across epigraphy and papyri.