Æ34 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΑΡΧ Μ ΓΕΜ ΜΕΝΕΚΛΕΟΥϹ, ΔΙΔΥΜΕΙΑ ΚΟΜΟΔΕΙΑ ΜΙΛΗϹΙΩΝ

The Didymeia were the great festival games held in honor of Apollo at Didyma, just south of Miletus, where the sanctuary of Apollo Didymaeus housed one of the antiquity's most celebrated oracles. The Commodeia suffix grafted onto the festival name reflects Commodus's demand that cities rename civic institutions after him — a practice Miletus had adopted and, notably, retained even after his assassination in 192 AD and official damnatio memoriae. Severus, who rehabilitated Commodus's memory and had him deified, would have found the persistence of that title politically agreeable.