RPC V.3, — (unassigned; ID 78118)

 

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Coin type
Volume V.3
Number — (unassigned; ID 78118)
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Caracalla
Person (obv.) Caracalla (Augustus)
Issue Year 21
Dating AD 212/13
Obverse inscription [ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ϹΕ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ Π Μ ΒΡΕ ΜΕ ΕΥ ϹΕΒ]
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Σε(ουῆρος) Ἀντωνῖνος Π(αρθικὸς) Μέ(γιστος) Βρε(ττανικὸς) Μέ(γιστος) Εὐ(σεβὴς) Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Parthicus Greatest Britannicus Greatest Pious Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Caracalla, right
Reverse inscription L ΚΑ
Edition (ἔτους) καʹ
Translation of year 20
Reverse design Five deities reclining on a lectisternium; from right to left: Sarapis seated left, holding wreath on Harpocrates seated left before him; before, Isis seated right with headdress, holding sceptre and uraeus; behind her, Demeter seated right with kalathos and torch; far to left, Hermanubis holding caduceus, seated right; beneath the kline, in three niches: on each side, a standing figure with sceptre(?), in the middle, Tyche lies left on lectisternium, holding rudder and propping up head
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 25.33 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference D 4076; DS 9782; Emmett 2825A
Specimens 6 (1 in the core collections)
Note on the rev. type, see L. Bricault, « Sarapis au banquet : lectisternesd’Alexandrie et d’Égypte », RevueNumismatique 170 (2013), p. 101-134.
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