Between them,
Head and
Pick (see below) give us about all we know of this epithet,
Euposia. The child climbing up her
arm is
Ploutos or the same thing by a local name.
• 28 12 06 Æ25 11.94g
axis 12h.
Nicopolis ad Istrum.
Diadumenian, issued by Longinus. Bareheaded, draped
bust (with
aegis, evidently) to r. K M OP[ELLI DIA] DOVMENIANOS.
Rev., "
Tyche (or
Euposia) in
kalathos, stg. r., her rudder in her right hand, on her left
arm the
cornucopiae, on which sits a small child." I should say, "climbs" for "sits". In a note,
Pick adds, "
Svoronos, by whom the coin was first described, interprets the child, certainly rightly, as
Ploutos. In the goddess we perhaps are to recognize the same personification
as is called EVPOSIA on coins of
Hierapolis in
Phrygia (refs. to two Imhoof-Blumer). In that connection, add that the title "euposiarches" occurs in our region at Odessa and
Tomis (refs. to Perrot and Kleinsorge)." [VP STA
LON]GINOV NI KOPOLITÔN PROS I.
Pick,
AMNG I, 1, no. 1868, pl. XIX, 7, This specimen does have the same
rev. die as that illus. by
Pick (
Munich). As an epithet of
Tyche,
Euposia also occurs at Nysa in
Lydia. See
Head, HN p. 654 for Nysa, p. 676 for
Hierapolis in
Phrygia.
I
had one of these, but,
scarce as it is, my first one (also rougher) has a different
reverse die, with PROS I in the
exergue.
The
obv. die is, of course, the one with the emperor on horseback and other reverses that we discussed recently.
I also have
Tyche Euposia for
Caracalla at
Marcianopolis, issued by Quintilianus.
• 21 01 03 AE 24+ 8.6g
Marcianopolis.
Caracalla, laureate, bearded,
head to r. ANTONINOS PIOS AVGOVST O S.
Rev., Tyche-Euposia, in
kalathos and with rudder and
cornucopiae, stg. l. with child (
Ploutos?) clambering onto her shoulder. VP KVNTILIANO V MARKIANOPOLITO and in
field at r. N. Not the most statuesque of Tyches but in remarkably crisp condition. The
obverse legend and its
portrait are those of the
agonistic issue under Quintilian. Not in
AMNG I, 1 (although the
obverse legend exactly matches 637, with the O C ), but possibly
cf. Varbanov I, no. 744, though no child or baby (dete, bebe) is mentioned there. Hr & J seems to illustrate this coin in
Marcianopolis, p. 62, at the bottom of the page, though again I don't see the words for baby or child.
Of course, the
identification of the
type depends on the legends attached to the motif at
Hierapolis in
Phrygia. I have not seen the
Tyche with a baby at
Odessos or
Tomis, the cities where Euposiarchs are named.
Pat L.
I attach also my first
Diadumenian one and a detail of the baby climbing the
arm of Tyche-Euposia on the new one.