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Offline Paul B4

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Legend Help on coin from Anchialus
« on: August 28, 2021, 10:14:22 pm »
OYΛΠIANΩN AΓCXIAΛEΩN
What is the first word?
Second word is Anchialus of Thrace?

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Re: Legend Help on coin from Anchialus
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2021, 03:56:55 am »
Under Trajan Anchialus added "Ulpia" to their name, the gentil name of Marcus Ulpius Traianus. So the official name of the city was "Ulpia Anchialus".
See e.g. here: https://www.academia.edu/46904410/The_Foundation_Myths_of_Anchialos_Revisited_Il_Mar_Nero_10_2019_2020_39_48

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Re: Legend Help on coin from Anchialus
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2021, 05:44:50 pm »
Thank you, Altamura.

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Re: Legend Help on coin from Anchialus
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2021, 04:33:14 am »
Is the form grammatically a genitive plural? So a literal translation would be "of the Ulpian Anchialeons" (meaning "coin of the Ulpian Ancialeons).

 

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