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Æ31 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΛΟΥΚΙΛΛΙΟΥ, ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥ, ΑΡΧΟ, ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Sebaste (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΔΟΜΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤ (Translation: Julia Domna Augusta) |
| Reverse description | Cybele, the Phrygian mother goddess, enthroned and facing left upon a high-backed throne, her right hand extended holding a patera and her left arm resting upon a tympanum (ritual drum). At her feet to the left crouches a lion, her sacred animal and constant attribute. The reverse legend ΕΠΙ ΛΟΥΚΙΛΛΙΟΥ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥ ΑΡΧΟ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗΝΩΝ is disposed around the field, identifying the local magistrate Lucilius Antonius as archon and the issuing civic authority of Sebaste. The depiction of Cybele reflects the city's strong cultic ties to this indigenous Anatolian deity. |
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Sebaste was a minor Phrygian city with limited coinage output, and civic bronzes struck under Septimius Severus from this mint are scarce by any measure. The magistrate name preserved in the legend — Loukilios Antonios — anchors this piece to a specific local archon whose tenure we cannot date more precisely within Severus's eighteen-year reign, a frustrating but characteristic ambiguity of provincial civic issues from inland Anatolia.