Æ30 - Septimius Severus ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ, ΔΕΙΑ ΚΟΜΟΔΕΙΑ

Laodicea ad Lycum, situated in the Lycus River valley of Phrygia, was a wealthy city whose civic pride manifested partly through competitive festival culture. The ΔΕΙΑ ΚΟΜΟΔΕΙΑ designation references games instituted in honor of Commodus, whose divine cult the city had cultivated — a political investment that became awkward after his damnatio memoriae in 193 AD, the very year Septimius Severus came to power. That this festival name survived into the Severan era on civic bronze suggests Laodicea either petitioned successfully to retain the games under a new theological framing or simply outlasted the formal condemnation at the provincial level.