bgr_868314 - CILICIA - HIERAPOLIS-CASTABALA Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 150-100 AC.
Mint name / Town : Cilicie, Hiérapolis-Castabala
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,20 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan centré, éclaté à 3h. Joli portrait. Usure régulière. Patine foncée
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête tourelée de Tyché à droite ; derrière, un monogramme.
Reverse
Reverse description : Déesse, coiffée du kalathos, assise à gauche sur un trône, les jambes croisées, tenant de la main droite un phiale et de la gauche une branche ; un aigle le long du trône.
Reverse legend : IEROPOLITWN/ TWN PROS TW/ PURAMWI.
Historical background
CILICIA - HIERAPOLIS-CASTABALA
(2nd-1st century BC)
Hierapolis, located on Pyramos to the east of Anazarbos, does not seem known before the reign of Antiochus IV. It became at the end of the 1st century BC the capital of the kings of Cilicia under Tarkondimotos I (39-31 AC.), then Philopator. On the death of the latter under Tiberius around 17, the kingdom was attached to Rome. An imperial workshop operated there between the reigns of Antoninus Pius and Gallien.
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