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J.G. Milne, 'Some Alexandrian coins', JEA 4 (1917), pp. 177-86, at 182-3 (with pl. XXXVI.1): 'the empress is holding the model of a gateway presumably erected in her name. … There is no clue to the identification of the gateway represented by the model. It was presumably at Alexandria'. Milne was followed by Vogt, pp. 186-7, but the identification as Mamaea has been denied by E. Kosmetatou, ‘The public image of Julia Mamea. An epigraphic and numismatic enquiry’, Latomus 61.2 (2002), pp. 398-414, at 404, preferring Alexandria, but the figure does not wear Alexandria's characteristic elephant head-dress. The hairstyle and the stephane seem exactly like those found on obverses of Mamaea.
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