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Æ30 - Septimius Severus ΘΕΟ (?) ΑΡΧΟΝ ΚΕΡΑΜΙ
| Issuer | Ceramus (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Diameter | 30 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Athena standing facing, head turned to the left, clad in aegis and helmet, holding a spear in her right hand and an unidentified object in her left, with a round shield resting at her feet. The composition follows the standard provincial type for Athena as divine protectress, common in Carian civic coinage. The reverse legend naming the local archon and the ethnic of Ceramus runs around the field in Greek script. The style is characteristic of the Conventus of Alabanda workshops during the Severan era. |
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Ceramus was a minor Carian city whose civic coinage was administered under the conventus of Alabanda — one of the judicial districts Rome used to organize the Greek east. The partially legible magistrate inscription, read tentatively as ΘΕΟ ΑΡΧΟΝ ΚΕΡΑΜΙ, suggests a local archon whose full name the die-cutter may have abbreviated or whose legend has simply not survived cleanly on any known specimen.
Provincial bronzes of this size from Caria under Septimius Severus are thinly documented. The V.2 reference points to the Waddington corpus tradition, where many Ceraman types survive in single or very few examples.