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URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/797 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | V.2 |
Number | — (unassigned; ID 797) |
Province | Asia |
Subprovince | Conventus of Adramyteum |
Region | Lesbus |
City | Methymna |
Reign | Septimius Severus |
Person (obv.) | Caracalla (Augustus) |
Magistrate | Phaidros (strategos) |
Obverse inscription | [ΑΥΤ Κ] Μ ΑΥ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ |
Edition | Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐ(ρήλιος) Ἀντωνεῖνος |
Translation | Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
Obverse design | laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Caracalla, right, seen from front |
Reverse inscription | [ ] ΦΑΙΔΡΟΥ [ ] ΜΗΘΥΜΝΑΙΩΝ |
Edition | [---] Φαΐδρου [---] Μηθυμναίων |
Translation | [---] of Phaidros [---] of the Methymnians |
Reverse design | Dionysus standing right, holding sceptre, in a biga drawn by two panthers, right, preceded by Maenad standing facing; on the left, satyr standing right; in the background, satyr holding pedum |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 33 mm |
Average weight | 20.96 g |
Axis | 6, 12 |
Reference | BMC 42; Franke, Methymna 23 |
Specimens | 4 (2 in the core collections) |