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Æ29 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Τ ΦΛ ΗΡΩΔ ΠΑΠΙΩΝΟϹ ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Hypaepa (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC V.2#67424 |
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| Reverse description | Dionysus standing left, head turned right, nude but for a flowing mantle, extending a cantharus downward over a panther at his feet and holding a thyrsus in his left hand, his figure supported by or leaning against the aged Silenus who stands beside him. The composition reflects the standard Dionysiac iconography common to the civic bronzes of the Lydian conventus, with the multi-line Greek legend naming the local strategos distributed around the figures in the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Τ ΦΛ ΗΡΩΔ ΠΑΠΙΩΝΟϹ ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ (Translation: under strategos Titus Flavius Herodes Papion, of the Hypaepenians) |
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Hypaepa was a small Lydian city in the Cayster River valley whose civic coinage depended almost entirely on the prestige of whatever magistrate's name appeared in the legend. Flavius Herodes Papion, whose name fills the obverse inscription here, held the strategia — the chief civic magistracy responsible for authorizing and overseeing local bronze issues. His name appears across several Hypaepan bronzes of the Severan period, suggesting a sustained tenure or repeated appointment.
The city's coins are thinly documented and poorly represented in major collections, making die linkage studies across the series difficult.