Roman Provincial Coin Type struck under Elagabalus from Byblus in Phoenicia Joe Shephard supported by a fine-tuned OpenAI GPT-4o mini model Jerome Mairat supported by a fine-tuned OpenAI GPT-4o mini model John Fell OUP Research Fund Jerome Mairat director and editor RPC https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/51282/epidoc Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence Metal Coin type Byblus 34.119501, 35.646846 Elagabalus

Encoded following the EpiDoc guidelines (https://epidoc.stoa.org), inspired by SigiDoc (http://sigidoc.huma-num.fr), using Unicode for inscriptions.

Data sourced from Roman Provincial Coinage Online: RPC Online (https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk). A complete list of the epidoc files available can be found at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/epidoc.

 Ancient Greek coin Roman Provincial Coin Type 2025-05-23 15:33:17 Obverse of the coin illustrating this coin type on RPC online: see for more details Reverse of the coin illustrating this coin type on RPC online: see for more details
Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνῖνος
Ἱερᾶς Βύβλου
Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
of sacred Byblus

radiate and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus, right, seen from front

front view of temple with four columns with arcuated lintel in the middle of pediment, within which Astarte standing, facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding aplustre and rudder and placing foot on prow

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