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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2219429, member: 56859"]Hmm, I'm not sure what the T means. Maybe Tetrarchos (ruler)? Just a guess, although that probably doesn't make sense because "AMK" is an abbreviation of praise for the city, not the ruler (I may be wrong in this assumption).</p><p><br /></p><p>You know this, but for others: AMK is an abbreviation for ΠΡOTH MEΓIΣTH KAΛΛIΣSTE, which means "first, greatest, and most beautiful" (Wayne Sales, in <i>Ancient Coin Collecting IV: Roman Provincials</i>, which he quoted from <i>Greek Numismatic Epigraphy</i> by John E. Hartmann and George MacDonald).</p><p><br /></p><p>What about the Γ-B? Elsewhere, for a coin of Tarsos issues a few years later by Maximinus I, I read that the Γ-B indicated "metropolis of three provinces, holder of two neocories". In this Roman provincial era, did Cilicia had three main cities: Tarsos, Anazarbos, and _____? Was Anazarbus a metropolis of three cities? Maybe Sayle's book will shed some light on this... I've only flipped through, picking up little bits here and there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2219429, member: 56859"]Hmm, I'm not sure what the T means. Maybe Tetrarchos (ruler)? Just a guess, although that probably doesn't make sense because "AMK" is an abbreviation of praise for the city, not the ruler (I may be wrong in this assumption). You know this, but for others: AMK is an abbreviation for ΠΡOTH MEΓIΣTH KAΛΛIΣSTE, which means "first, greatest, and most beautiful" (Wayne Sales, in [I]Ancient Coin Collecting IV: Roman Provincials[/I], which he quoted from [I]Greek Numismatic Epigraphy[/I] by John E. Hartmann and George MacDonald). What about the Γ-B? Elsewhere, for a coin of Tarsos issues a few years later by Maximinus I, I read that the Γ-B indicated "metropolis of three provinces, holder of two neocories". In this Roman provincial era, did Cilicia had three main cities: Tarsos, Anazarbos, and _____? Was Anazarbus a metropolis of three cities? Maybe Sayle's book will shed some light on this... I've only flipped through, picking up little bits here and there.[/QUOTE]
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