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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24895049, member: 26430&quot;]As I see it, the city must be Judaea, Ascalon. Compare to these examples (especially the from Hadrian on):</p><blockquote><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=Phanebal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=Phanebal" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=Phanebal</a></p><p>OR</p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=ascalon+shield+laureate" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=ascalon+shield+laureate" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=ascalon+shield+laureate</a></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>The reverse is actually a really cool type. RPC describes the figure with various versions of this:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>War-god Phanebal, standing left, holding harpa (?) in right hand and small round shield and long palm branch in left hand</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1599404[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1599405[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1599406[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1599407[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I would learn toward Trajan or Hadrian. But trying to ID emperors on Provincials from portraits can be risky, since they didn&#039;t always create a good likeness (as the Imperial mints would have) or even know what the emperor looked like in some cases. (Oftentimes you need at least a bit of obverse legend to be sure.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Might be easier to say with bigger photo but I wouldn&#039;t be surprised to learn it&#039;s anyone from Claudius through the Severans.</p><p><br /></p><p>But it&#039;s from Ascalon with Phanebal on the rev. I have very little doubt there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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