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In K the description is ‘Gestalt sitzt auf Sessel ohne Lehne l. hält mit d. R. Kranz über zu ihren Füssen stehendern Widder, mit d. L. Szepter; im Hintergrund schreibt Genius auf Obelisken (Nilometer?)’; Dem 1198 described it as `Isis assise à gauche, tenant de la droite un sistre, de la gauche un sceptre; devant elle, le boeuf Apis; derrière, une figure debout érigeant un trophée’; Dattari must also have identified the figure as Isis since he placed it on DS pl. 85 after Isis and before Isis Pharia; the ticket in NY says ‘Euthenia or Isis seated, l. with Apis and Nilometer’. The animal looks more like a bull than a ram, especially on the A coin. But bulls do not appear with any personifications on the Alexandrian coinage of Hadrian (or Trajan), except on the coins in the names of some nomes: Athribite (with Hathor), Hermonthite (with Apollo), Memphite (with Isis: the Apis bull), Heliopolite (with Helios) and Pharbaithite (with Harmerti). So the female Isis seems the obvious choice. Vogt I, p. 99, saw the design as a reference to the discovery of a new Apis bull in AD 122 (see also 5369.
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