Dichalkon - Phainippos, son of Drakon

Apameia was refounded by Antiochus I on the site of Kelainai and named for his mother Apama, becoming one of the most commercially significant cities of interior Anatolia — a major node on the trade routes connecting the Aegean coast to Syria. Following the Roman reorganization of Asia after 133 BC, Phrygian civic bronzes like this one proliferated as local magistrates asserted municipal identity within the new provincial framework. The named magistrate Phainippos, son of Drakon, appears in the standard eponymous format used across the city's long bronze series, which spans nearly a century of provincial civic life.