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URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/6484 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | VIII |
Number | — (unassigned; ID 6484) |
Province | Syria Phoenice |
Region | Syria |
City | Heliopolis |
Reign | Philip I |
Person (obv.) | Philip I (Augustus) |
Obverse inscription | IMP CAES M IVL PHILIPPVS PIVS FEL AVG |
Edition | Imp(erator) Caes(ar) M(arcus) Iul(ius) Philippus Pius Fel(ix) Aug(ustus) |
Translation | Emperor Caesar Marcus Julius Philippus Pious Fortunate Augustus |
Obverse design | laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip I, right, seen from rear |
Reverse inscription | COL IVL, AVG FEL, HEL |
Edition | col(onia) Iul(ia) Aug(usta) Fel(ix) Hel(iopolis) |
Translation | the colony Julia Augusta Felix Heliopolis |
Reverse design | Fortuna standing facing, holding rudder and cornucopia, flanked by male figures each holding a torch in upraised hand; all within billowing canopy held by two female figures on pedestal |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 29 mm |
Average weight | 14.86 g |
Axis | 1, 6, 7, 12 |
Reference | Sawaya series 43, 448–87 |
Specimens | 63 (31 in the core collections) |
Note | at times retrograde HEL |