Roman Provincial Coin Type struck under Elagabalus from Byblus in Phoenicia Joe Shephard 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/51294/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
Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀλέξναδρος Καῖσαρ
Ἱερᾶς Βύβλου
Marcus Aurelius Alexander Caesar
of sacred Byblus

bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from rear

front view of temple with six columns with decorated arcuated lintel in the middle, within which Astarte standing, facing, head right, wearing kalathos, holding long sceptre and placing foot on prow; to right, small Nike standing on column, left, crowning her with wreath

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/51294