RPC V.3, — (unassigned; ID 73674)

 

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Coin type
Volume V.3
Number — (unassigned; ID 73674)
Province Lycia-Pamphylia
Region Pisidia
City Adada
Reign Caracalla
Person (obv.) Caracalla (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνεῖνος Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀντωνεῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Obverse design laureate head of Caracalla, right
Reverse inscription ΑΔΑΔΕΩΝ ΒΑΧΧΕΙΑ
Edition Ἀδαδέων Βαχχεία Ἀδαδέων Βαχχεία
Translation of the Adadeans, the Baccheia
Reverse design cista with coiled serpent
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Average weight 4.61 g
Axis 6, 12
Reference vA Pisidien I, 77–79
Specimens 5 (3 in the core collections)
Note The Baccheia were a festival in honour of Dionysus, attested from Hellenistic times: P. Talloen, Cult in Pisidia. Religious Practice in Southwestern Asia Minor from Alexander the Great to the Rise of Christianity (Studies in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology 10, Leuven, 2015), pp. 90, 139, 187-8.
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
— —     L: 1862,0614.48 BMC 6 = Huber lot 662 = vA Pisidien I, 78
— —     ✸ P: 12 SNG 1032 = Wa 3553 = vA Pisidien I, 79
— —     V: GR 36289 Egger 46 (Prowe) lot 2004 = vA Pisidien I, 77
— —     CGT coll. ex G. Rohde coll.
— —     N&N LONDON Green II, 3 Oct. 2022, lot 293