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Æ36 - Septimius Severus ΠΑΡΑ ΜΗΝΟΔΟΤΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛΙΑΝΗϹ ϹΕΙΒΛΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Siblia (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Heracles standing to the right, engaged in combat with the Nemean lion in the First Labour; the hero grasps the beast with both arms in a wrestling pose, his muscular figure rendered in dynamic relief typical of Severan provincial bronzes. A club is depicted in the exergue below the main type. The reverse legend, identifying the local magistrates and civic community of the Siblians, runs around the periphery. |
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Siblia was a minor Phrygian settlement whose civic coinage under the Severan dynasty was issued not by a magistrate acting alone but by a pair — Menodotos and Ailiane, named together in the legend, almost certainly a husband and wife team exercising joint civic liturgy. This joint eponymous dedication is unusual even by the flexible standards of provincial Asian bronze issues, where naming conventions varied widely between poleis.
The conventus of Apamea administered a vast swath of inland Phrygia, and small dependent communities like Siblia rarely struck bronze with this level of civic ambition. Few specimens are recorded.