laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Caracalla, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription
ΑΜΒΛΑΔΕΩΝ ΛΑΚΕΔΑΙΜΟΝΙΩΝ
Edition
Ἀμβλαδέων Λακεδαιμονίων
Translation
of the Lacedaemonian Ambladians
Reverse design
Septimius Severus, bearded and holding short sceptre, in biga, gallopping right
Metal
copper-based alloy
Average diameter
33 mm
Average weight
20.29 g
Reference
vA Pisidien I, 136
Specimens
1 (0 in the core collections)
Note
Identified as a reference to Severus' Parthian victory by 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), p. 171. Note the die-links reported by Kraft, which are certainly surprising. Moreover, the reverse of this unique coin does have a rather strange look (a strange galloping biga for an emperor: one would expect a slow triumphal quadriga?), and there must be at least a question about its authenticity.