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Æ32 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΙΟΥ ΠΩΛΛΙΩΝ , ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ Β ΝΕΟΚ
| Issuer | City of Pergamum (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A victimarius stands to the left in the field, raising a mallet in preparation to strike a humped bull (likely a zebu or similar sacrificial animal) that stands to the right; the scene depicts a Roman sacrificial rite in vivid detail. Above the sacrificial group, a statue of Septimius Severus is shown standing left upon a rectangular base, holding a patera in his extended right hand and a long sceptre in his left, referencing the imperial cult at Pergamum. The reverse legend, distributed around the field, records the name of the local strategos and the city's status as twice neocorate. The composition reflects Pergamum's proud role as a leading center of the imperial cult in Asia Minor. |
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Pergamum held the title of "neokoros" — temple warden of the imperial cult — twice over by the Severan period, a status this coin's reverse legend explicitly advertises. The designation "Β ΝΕΟΚ" (twice neokoros) was a matter of intense civic competition among the great cities of Asia Minor; Ephesus, Smyrna, and Pergamum jockeyed relentlessly for such honorifics, which translated directly into prestige, festival rights, and Roman favor. The strategus Pollion named in the obverse legend served as the city's eponymous magistrate, anchoring the issue to a specific administrative year within Severus's reign.