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Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, 7 March 161 - February 169 A.D., Petra, Arabia
| Petra, the capital of the ancient Nabatean Kingdom, is a famous archaeological site in Jordan's southwestern desert. UNESCO describes Petra as "one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage." The BBC selected Petra as one of "the 40 places you have to see before you die." Accessed via a narrow canyon called Al Siq, it contains tombs and temples carved into pink sandstone cliffs, earning its nickname, the "Rose City." Perhaps its most famous structure is 45m-high Al Khazneh, a temple with an ornate, Greek-style facade, and known as The Treasury. After the last Nabataean king, Rabbel II, died in 106 A.D., Trajan incorporated Nabataea into the Roman province Arabia Petraea. One of the latest known Nabataean language inscriptions, from 191 A.D., records "...This in the year 85 of the Eparchy [Roman Rule], in which Arabs destroyed the land." It seems likely that raiding Arab tribes extinguished what remained of a weakened Nabataean culture. In 747 A.D. what was left of the Nabataean cities was destroyed in a major earthquake. |  |
RY06696. Bronze AE 19, Spijkerman 22, BMC Arabia -, Lindgren -, VF, Petra (Jordan) mint, weight 2.89g, maximum diameter 18.7mm, die axis 0o, obverse AYT ANTWNOC KAI OYHPOC CEB, confronted, bare-headed, draped and bearded busts of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus; reverse ΠETPA / MHTPO/ΠOΛIΣ in wreath, very rare; SOLD
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