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Plotina, Augusta 105 - 129 A.D., Wife of Trajan, Gordus-Julia, Lydia
Gordus (also known as Julia Gordus or Iulia Gordos) was an ancient Greek city in eastern Lydia, near the source of the River Hyllus, or Phrygius, later called Glaucus, a northern tributary of the Hermus. It was a strategically important town founded by the Seleucid Kings. The Julio-Claudian Roman emperors renamed the city Julia Gordos in the 1st century. The city achieved the status of a polis under the Flavians. It was the home to Appolophanes the physician, and there is epigraphical evidence of both pagans and Christians in the town.GB84174. Bronze AE 18, RPC Online III 2550 (10 spec.); BMC Lydia p. 92, 18; SNG Mu 89 var. (rev. leg., Zeus holds eagle); SNG Cop -, F, tight flan, edge cracks, Gordus-Julia (modern Giordiz, Turkey) mint, weight 3.191g, maximum diameter 16.0mm, die axis 0o, magistrate Poplius, c. 112 - 117 B.C.; obverse ΠΛΩTEINA CEBACTH, draped bust right, hair in an elaborate high arrangement at the front and in a plait behind; reverse ΓOPΔHNΩN EΠI ΠOΠΛIOY (from upper right), Zeus seated left on throne, nude to the waist, himation around hips and legs, patera in right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand; rare; SOLD
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