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Ramsay, William Mitchell
The cities and bishoprics of Phrygia: being an essay of the local history of Phrygia from the earliest time to the Turkish conquest (Band 1,2): West and West-Central Phrygia — Oxford, 1897

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App. I. INSCRIPTIONS. 639

mentioned on many coins of Nero, Agrippina, and Poppaea. The legend
is usually €TTI • CCPOYHNIOY • KAT7IT.QNOC • KAI • IOYAIAC-
CeOYHPAC • AKMONEHN ; sometimes em • APX • in monograms is
added, and on a coin of Agrippina €TT-APX-TO-r. This pair of
magistrates therefore were in office for the third time not later than the
year 58-9 ; and they were still in office when coins of Poppaea as
Augusta1 began to be struck in a.d. 63. We may infer from these
coins compared with inscr. 530, that Servenius Capito ceased to be magis-
trate about that year, and Julia Severa succeeded him, with Tyrronius
Papon as a colleague, and they held office for at least eight years; and
during this time Nicias Lucius was gymnasiarch during two successive
lustra. This inscription, therefore, dates about 70-80 a.d.

The reference to Julia Severa and Tyrronius Papon is introduced in
a rather unusual way. It is not usual to date the offices enumerated in
inscriptions of this character, unless there is something specially honour-
able or remarkable in the dating. Now Julia was a person of note. It
is evident that she was superior in dignity to Tyrronius; and her fame
is preserved by other memorials, see no. 549, 552-559-

Further we may infer from this inscr. that Julia Severa and Tyrro-
nius Papon were in all probability married2, and held office for some
time in company. If so, we must draw the same inference about
Servenius Capito and Julia Severa, see no. 559. After the death of
Servenius soon after 63, Julia Severa married Tyrronius Rapon. Ser-
venius was noble, and is mentioned first; and as we shall see below
no. 552, he belonged to a family of great distinction. Tyrronius, the
second husband of Julia, belonged to a less distinguished family, and his
wife gets precedence in office and in order3. Their marriage would be
certain, if we can understand that they were high-priest and priestess
(who were always married) holding the penteteric festival when Nicias
was gymnasiarch. Julia was high-priestess and Agonothetis no. 550. In
that case we should probably understand APX on coins of Servenius and
Julia in the same sense. Usually APX means archon on coins; but
perhaps the use of monogram may justify our interpretation.

1 L. Meyer published in Zft.f. Num. I 2 It seems hardly in accordance with

p. 336 a coin reading TTOTTTTAIA • ZE- ancient custom to associate a man and

BASTH and having the names of Ser- a woman so markedly as is done in this

venius and Julia on reverse. This coin document unless they were married,

confirms Mionnet's interpretation of 3 Compare the facts about Priscilla

0GAM • PflMHN on a coin of these or Prisca in the New Testament, who

magistrates as Poppaea : she was repre- is commonly mentioned before her hus-

sented as the personified goddess Roma band (St. Paul the Trav. p. 268). On the

with turreted head. name Tyrronius see p. 650.
 
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