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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4307032, member: 99456"]and clearly very interesting example for pseudo autonomous...</p><p>These "titles" seem to be have long standing meaning in Seleucis and Pieria (or at least <a href="http://www.seleukidtraces.info/information/ci_seleukeia-pieria" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.seleukidtraces.info/information/ci_seleukeia-pieria" rel="nofollow">Seleucis</a>)</p><ul> <li><b>ιερα</b> or “holy” granted to Seleukea in 145 BC</li> <li><b>ιερα και ασυλοσ</b> or “holy and inviolable” granted in c. 138 BC</li> <li><b>αυτονομος</b> or free declared in 109 BC and confirmed by Pompey the Great in 64 BC when he created the province of Syria</li> </ul><p>Interesting to see other uses <b>αυτονομος</b> on provincial coins: I am left with a question of whether these were long standing honorific titles associated with the region (one of them granted by a Roman leader), and not necessarily a declaration in contrast to Roman rule.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1337957" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1337957" rel="nofollow">This coin</a> from Dora, Phoenicia (ex ACSearch) "autonomous" with Trajan's portrait on the obverse:</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/50/1498/1337957.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>or <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3262182" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3262182" rel="nofollow">this one</a> of Trajan from Cappadocia, Tyana (ex ACSearch) </p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/105/3122/3262182.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>add the to the picture that the word <b>αυτονομος</b> co-exists with honoring the Roman emperor. I don't know enough to interpret - interested to learn more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4307032, member: 99456"]and clearly very interesting example for pseudo autonomous... These "titles" seem to be have long standing meaning in Seleucis and Pieria[B] [/B](or at least [URL='http://www.seleukidtraces.info/information/ci_seleukeia-pieria']Seleucis[/URL]) [LIST] [*][B]ιερα[/B] or “holy” granted to Seleukea in 145 BC [*][B]ιερα και ασυλοσ[/B] or “holy and inviolable” granted in c. 138 BC [*][B]αυτονομος[/B] or free declared in 109 BC and confirmed by Pompey the Great in 64 BC when he created the province of Syria [/LIST] Interesting to see other uses [B]αυτονομος[/B] on provincial coins: I am left with a question of whether these were long standing honorific titles associated with the region (one of them granted by a Roman leader), and not necessarily a declaration in contrast to Roman rule. [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1337957']This coin[/URL] from Dora, Phoenicia (ex ACSearch) "autonomous" with Trajan's portrait on the obverse: [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/50/1498/1337957.s.jpg[/IMG] or [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3262182']this one[/URL] of Trajan from Cappadocia, Tyana (ex ACSearch) [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/105/3122/3262182.s.jpg[/IMG] add the to the picture that the word [B]αυτονομος[/B] co-exists with honoring the Roman emperor. I don't know enough to interpret - interested to learn more.[/QUOTE]
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