Æ37 - Commodus ΖΕΥϹ ΕΙΔΑΙΟϹ ϹΚΗΨΙ ΔΑΡΔΑΝ

Scepsis was a minor Troad city that claimed an extraordinary distinction: it was said to be the site where the library of Aristotle was hidden after his death, buried in a pit to prevent seizure by the Attalid kings, and only recovered — badly damaged — some two centuries later. The city's attachment to Zeus Idaios reflects the sacred geography of Mount Ida directly to its south, where the god was worshipped at peak sanctuaries throughout the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

The epithet ϹΚΗΨΙ ΔΑΡΔΑΝ — Zeus of Scepsis and Dardanos — signals a deliberate cultic pairing between two neighboring communities, an arrangement likely tied to shared festival obligations under the conventus system.