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URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/49340 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | V.2 |
Number | — (unassigned; ID 49340) |
Province | Asia |
Subprovince | Conventus of Smyrna |
Region | Ionia |
City | Smyrna |
Reign | Caracalla |
Person (obv.) | Caracalla (Augustus) |
Magistrate | Tiberius Claudius Cretarius (strategos) |
Obverse inscription | Α Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ |
Edition | Α(ὐτοκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀντωνεῖνος |
Translation | Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
Obverse design | laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Caracalla, right, seen from front |
Reverse inscription | ϹΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΑϹΙΑϹ Γ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ, ΤΩΝ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΩΝ ΚΑΛΛΕΙ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΓΕΘΙ, ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑΤΗ ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΥ ΚΛ ΚΡΗΤΑΡΙΟΥ |
Edition | Σμυρναίων πρώτων Ἀσίας γʹ τῶν Σεβαστῶν νεωκόρων κάλλει καὶ μεγέθ<ε>ι ἐπὶ στρατη(γοῦ) Τιβερίου Κλ(αυδίου) Κρηταρίου |
Translation | of the Smyrnaeans, first of Asia, thrice neocorate, in beauty and size, under the strategos Tiberius Claudius Cretarius |
Reverse design | inscription within laurel-wreath |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 43 mm |
Average weight | 41.91 g |
Axis | 5, 6 |
Reference | BMC 405–6; Klose Smyrna LIX 14 |
Specimens | 5 (4 in the core collections) |