RPC III, 5466

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 5466
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue L H = year 8
Dating AD 123/4
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙ - ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Τραϊ(ανὸς) Ἁδρια(νὸς) Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΕΙϹ ΖΕΥϹ ϹΑΡΑΠΙϹ, L Η
Edition εἰς Ζεὺς Σάραπις (ἔτους) ηʹ
Translation to Zeus Sarapis, of year 8
Reverse design Zeus-Sarapis, radiate, standing facing on column, head right, holding sceptre and uncertain object
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 23.09 g
Axis 12
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
Note G.M. Staffieri, ‘ƐΙϹ ΖƐΥϹ ϹΑΡΑΠΙϹ su una dramma alessandrina inedita’, NACQT 25 (1996), pp. 255-69: ‘Statua maschile ignuda (?) radiata, incedente verso destra e parzialmente rivestita dell’himation, che regge uno scettro con la destra … e tiene nella sinistra un’aquila o una testa di Sarapis sormantata dal kàlathos’. He cited parallels for the inscriptions, and linked the coin design to the so-called ‘Colonna di Diocleziano’ at the Serapeum in Alxandria. For the radiate crown, cf. the coins of ΗΛΙΟΣ ΣΑΡΑΠΙΣ under Domitian. Here we have a mixture of Helios (the radiate crown) with Zeus and Sarapis. See also 5467.
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