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Gordian III Æ Pentassarion of Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior. AD 238-244. Menophilus, consular legate. M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC AVΓ, confronted busts of Gordian, laureate and draped facing right, and Serapis, draped and wearing calathus, facing left / [VΠ] MHNOΦIΛOV MAPKIANOΠOΛITWN, city of Marcianopolis viewed from an aerial perspective: city walls punctuated by thirteen towers, two of which flank an arched gate, and with arched colonnade along the inside back wall, enclosing a temple precinct composed of a tetrastyle temple façade flanked on either side by colonnaded portico, with a lighted altar in front. Hristova & Jekov 6.37.46.8; AMNG I 1167; Varbanov 1972. 13.47g, 29mm, 1h.
Very Fine; lightly smoothed and tooled. Extremely Rare.
Depicting the city of Marcianopolis from an aerial perspective, this rare and attractive architectural type emphasises the religious, civic and military aspects of the city by depicting the temple, the porticoes of the forum and the city walls, elements of the city that had helped it achieve status as one of the vital municipal outposts of the empire.
Very Fine; lightly smoothed and tooled. Extremely Rare.
Depicting the city of Marcianopolis from an aerial perspective, this rare and attractive architectural type emphasises the religious, civic and military aspects of the city by depicting the temple, the porticoes of the forum and the city walls, elements of the city that had helped it achieve status as one of the vital municipal outposts of the empire.