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| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 144-145 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ (Translation: Marcus Aurelius Caesar) |
| Reverse description | Standing figure of the nome deity Ba-neb-djedet (Mendes), bearded and facing, with head turned to the right, depicted in the syncretic Graeco-Egyptian style. The deity wears an atef crown surmounted by a solar disc flanked by two uraei mounted upon ram's horns, the iconographic hallmark of the Mendesian nome. In the left hand he holds a long sceptre, and in the right a goat, emblematic of the sacred animal of Mendes. The nome legend and regnal year appear in the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΜΕΝΔΗϹΙΟϹ L Η (Translation: Mendesios, of year 8) |
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