Æ35 - Elagabalus Μ ΑΥ ΕΥΑΝΔΡΟϹ Β Ο ΑΡΧΙΑΤ ΑΡΞ ΚΕΡΑΜΙΗΤΩΝ

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.