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There still remain to be mentioned the curious series of AE pieces which
bear on the rev. the names of the various nomoiνομοι or administrative
districts into which ancient Egypt was divided. These Coins of the Nomes
were not issued locally. They were struck at Alexandria, a circumstance which
robs them of the interest they would otherwise have possessed as calculated to
throw light on local cults. It is significant that the issues usually coincide
with specially abundant Alexandrian issues. We may infer that their purpose was
primarily commemorative. The emperors whose heads and names they bear are as follows:--
Domitian (Year 11), Trajan (chiefly Years l2-16), Hadrian (chiefly Year 11), Pius
(Year 8), and Marcus as Caesar (Year 8 of Pius). Generally speaking each set comprises
coins of one denomination only. The issue of Hadrian's Year 11 is exceptional.
It has usually two denominations, one of which is less than half the weight of
the other, while both are much smaller than was customary; the rev. type of the
lower is normally, but not invariably, an animal or other object which appears
on the rev. type of the higher as an adjunct of the standing figure of a divinity,
being, as a rule, held in the hand. The great majority of the subjects are taken
from the Egyptian pantheon. For detailed descriptions see B.M.C. and Dattari's
Numi Augg. Alexandrini. There were between sixty and seventy nomes in all,
and the names of about three-fourths of these occur on existing specimens, often
considerably abbreviated:--
{A}{THETA}{RHO}{I}{T}{E}C,
{A}{LAMBDA}{E}{XI}andreonανδρεων {X}oraωρα,
{A}{M}{M}{O}{N}{I}{A}{K}{H}{T}{H}C (?),
{A}{N}{T}{A}{I}{O}{PI}{O}{LAMBDA}{I}{T}{H}C,
{A}{PI}{O}{LAMBDA}{LAMBDA}{W}{N}{O}{PI}{O}{LAMBDA}{I}{T}{H}C,
{A}{RHO}{A}{B}{I}{A},
{A}{RHO}C{I}{N}{O}{E}{I}{Y}{T}{H}C,
{A}{PHI}{RHO}{O}{DELTA}{E}{I}{T}{O}{RHO}{O}{LAMBDA}{I}{T}{H}C,
{B}{O}{Y}C{I}{RHO}{I}{T}titaesτιτης,
{B}{O}{Y}C{I}{RHO}{I}{T}aesης,
{GAMMA}{Y}{N}{A}{K}opolitaesοπολιτης,
TODO: Give the rest of the nomes the translit/untranslit feature...