Laodicea ad Lycum sat at a critical junction of the royal road through Asia Minor, and by Domitian's reign the city was still rebuilding its civic identity following the catastrophic earthquake of 60 AD that had leveled much of the region. The magistrate named in the legend, Cornelius Dioscurides, was a local magistrate serving as strategos — his name preserved here being one of the few records of his existence.
Provincial bronzes of this conventus are frequently underrepresented in major collections, partly because Cibyra's issues were long lumped together or misattributed before systematic cataloguing of Lydian and Phrygian civic coinage.
Laodicea ad Lycum sat at a critical junction of the royal road through Asia Minor, and by Domitian's reign the city was still rebuilding its civic identity following the catastrophic earthquake of 60 AD that had leveled much of the region. The magistrate named in the legend, Cornelius Dioscurides, was a local magistrate serving as strategos — his name preserved here being one of the few records of his existence.
Provincial bronzes of this conventus are frequently underrepresented in major collections, partly because Cibyra's issues were long lumped together or misattributed before systematic cataloguing of Lydian and Phrygian civic coinage.