Roman Provincial Coin Type struck under Elagabalus from Ephesus in Ionia 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/55060/epidoc Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence Metal Coin type Ephesus 37.939722, 27.340833 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 2025-08-18 15:36:59 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 Ἀντωνεῖνος Σεβαστός
Ἐφεσίων μόνων ἁπασῶν τετράκι νεωκόρων
Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
of the Ephesians, alone among all (cities), four times neocorate

laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus, seen from rear, right; sometimes, to right, star

emperor standing, left, wearing toga and holding patera over lighted tripod at his feet, before temple with four columns seen from the front, globe in pediment, within which Artemis of Ephesus standing, facing, wearing kalathos, having supports

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