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Æ35 - Elagabalus Μ ΑΥ ΕΥΑΝΔΡΟϹ Β Ο ΑΡΧΙΑΤ ΑΡΞ ΚΕΡΑΜΙΗΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Ceramus |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ |
| Reverse description | A tetrastyle temple depicted in three-quarter perspective, with a triangular pediment supported by four columns resting on a stepped podium. Within the cella stands a cult statue, rendered frontally in a draped pose. The Greek legend Μ ΑΥ ΕΥΑΝΔΡΟϹ Β Ο ΑΡΧΙΑΤ ΑΡΞ ΚΕΡΑΜΙΗΤΩΝ — naming the local magistrate Marcus Aurelius Euandros, twice archiatros and archon of the Ceramiitans — is distributed around the field and below the temple. The ethnic ΚΕΡΑΜΙΗΤΩΝ appears prominently in the lower exergual area, asserting the civic identity of the issuing community of Ceramus in Caria. |
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Ceramus was a small Carian city whose civic coinage under Elagabalus is notable less for volume than for the magistrate names it preserves. The archiatros — chief physician — Euandros named in this issue's legend held a civic office that combined medical authority with administrative standing, a combination well-attested in Asia Minor but rarely so explicitly commemorated on bronze. Ceramic guilds and their leadership appear sporadically in provincial epigraphy, but a magistrate identified simultaneously as archiatros and leader of the Ceramietes is an unusual convergence of roles for a single individual.