RPC III, 4692


Image of specimen #3

Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	4692
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Trajan
Person (obv.)	Trajan (Augustus)
Issue	L IϚ = year 16
Dating	AD 112/13
Obverse inscription	ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Nominative	Imperator Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design	laureate bust of Trajan, right, nude and with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription	L ΙϚ
Reverse design	temple (classical) with four columns enclosing anguipede figure of Isis Thermouthis standing facing, holding torch in each hand; (to left, griffin)
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	34 mm
Axis	12
Specimens	4 (2 in the core collections)
Note	These coins have all been assigned to year 16, on the grounds that the only legible date is L IϚ on D1133, and on K616 = 4739, whose larger bust indicates a date later in year 16. A similar figure appears on coins without a temple: see above 4739. See also the anguipede figures depicted on coins of Hadrian years 5 and 21, identified there as Isis Thermouthis.

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1	L: 1888,0403.23	BMC 543	33	23.93		‘Portico having four columns supporting pediment, within which two figures of Nike holding wreath between them; within, statue of Agathodaemon, facing, in form of man, with below the waist of serpent; wears kalathos and himation, and holds in each hand a kind of sistrum. (temple of Agathodaemon.)’ ‘Date effaced’ (BMC). She probably holds two torches	Show
2	2	NY: 1944.100.56226		34	22.86	12	date illegible. Kept with coins of uncertain date	Show
3	3 ✸		Naville 29, 26 Feb. 2017, lot 377 = D1133	35	20.11		griffin. ‘Tabernacolo di Demeter Pantheistico. Quattro colonne sopportano un architrave con frontone triangolare, sopra il quale un disco fra corna di bove. Tra le colonne di centro, Demeter di fronte, porta modius, veste chiton e peplos, la parta inferiore del corpo in forma di serpente (uraeus); riposa la d. su lunga torcia accesa, tiene nella s. delle spighe. In alto a s. grifone alato rivolto a d. la branca s. sopra ruota; a d. modius ripieno di spighe. Nel campo, L IS’	Show
4	4		DS7254	33				Show