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Æ29 - Trebonianus Gallus Ε (ΟΥ) Β ΑΝΕΜΟΥΡΙΕωΝ
| Issuer | Anemurium (Cilicia) |
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| Year | 252-253 |
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| Weight | 11.77 g |
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| Reverse description | Frontal cult statue of Artemis of Anemurium depicted in the orientalizing xoanon style, the goddess shown rigid and facing, her arms extended horizontally and each hand clasping a branch; to the left in the field stands a stag, her sacred animal, rendered in profile. The idol's body is swathed in a tight sheath decorated with a pattern of oval lozenges or bosses, consistent with the archaic cult image type associated with this sanctuary. The reverse legend records the regnal year and the ethnic of the Anemourieans in Greek. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Anemurium's civic bronzes under Trebonianus Gallus are dated by the city's own local era, and the epsilon in the dating formula places this piece in the fifth year of whatever reckoning the city was then using — a calendrical system that still generates scholarly disagreement. The city itself, perched on the southernmost cape of Anatolia, was soon to face an existential threat: Isaurian raids in the later third century devastated the settlement so thoroughly that occupation effectively ceased, leaving the numismatic record as one of the few coherent sources for its civic life.