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Æ36 - Elagabalus ΚΙΔΡΑΜΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Cidrama (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Frontal view of a tetrastyle or distyle shrine with two columns supporting an arcuated lintel, framing a veiled goddess standing facing, her arms extended outward in an orans or welcoming gesture. At her feet to the left, a serpent is depicted, coiling upward — an attribute associated with chthonic or healing deities. The architectural setting is rendered with careful attention to the column shafts and arched pediment, consistent with the depiction of a local cult sanctuary. The civic ethnic legend ΚΙΔΡΑΜΗΝΩΝ is inscribed in the field, identifying the issuing community of Cidrama in Caria. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Cidrama was a minor Carian city whose civic coinage output was sparse enough that individual issues can often be tied to specific magistracies or local festivals. Under Elagabalus, provincial mints throughout Asia Minor seized on the new emperor's recognition — however chaotic his Rome-based reign — as an opportunity to assert civic identity through bronze issues that would never travel far beyond local markets. Most Cidraman bronzes of this period show extremely limited die variety, suggesting short, targeted production runs rather than sustained minting activity.
The Alabanda conventus, under which Cidrama fell for judicial and administrative purposes, grouped several such minor Carian communities whose individual coinage programs remain incompletely catalogued.