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Æ30 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Μ ΙΟΥ ΗΡΑΚΛΑ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Metropolis (Ionia) (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Cybele, the Phrygian mother goddess, depicted enthroned and facing left in a formal, hieratic composition. She holds a patera in her extended right hand and rests her left arm upon a tympanum beside her throne. A lion, her sacred attribute, reclines at her feet to the left. The Greek magistrate legend is distributed around the field, invoking the authority of the local strategos. The type reflects the strong cultic importance of Cybele in the cities of Ionia during the Imperial period. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Μ ΙΟΥ ΗΡΑΚΛΑ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ (Translation: under strategos Marcus Iulius Porcius Heraklas of the Metropolitans) |
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