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Offline Ed Flinn

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POVΦOV?
« on: April 29, 2006, 12:09:14 pm »
I'm wondering about the meaning of the reverse legend on this coin of Salonina from Sardes in Lydia, SNG Copenhagen 544var:


I think it says EΠ POVΦOV ACIAP CAPΔIANΩN - NE_ΩKOP.  What's POVΦOV?
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Re: POVΦOV?
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2006, 12:25:15 pm »
A name - accusative of Roufos, the Greek version of Latin Rufus.
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Re: POVÖOV?
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2006, 12:25:28 pm »
I think it is a magistrate name, Rufus. EP to my knowledge is an abbreviation of EPARXEIA which stands for "province" respectively the office of a governor of a province. So Rufus probably was the roman gorvernor of Lydia.

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Re: POVΦOV?
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2006, 12:29:12 pm »
Yes, I was 13 seconds faster. EP is for EPI, "under, in the year of". Rufus was Asiarch, that is priest of the Emperor's cult.

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Re: POVÖOV?
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2006, 12:32:02 pm »
Ah, thanks for the correction! Another note for my word doc full of relevant abbreviations.

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Re: POVΦOV?
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2006, 01:00:26 pm »
Thanks too all!
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Re: POVΦOV?
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2006, 02:18:13 pm »
And ROV :Greek_Phi: OV is the genitive.  Pat L.
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Re: POVΦOV?
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2006, 02:24:52 pm »
Of course it is, sorry.
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