L. Egnatius Victor Lollianus, governor (Pontus-Bithynia) ; Marcus Ulpius Pius Demetrianus, agoranomos (Nicomedia) ; Marcus Ulpius Pius Demetrianus, agoranomos (Nicomedia) ; Philip II, Roman Emperor ; Philip the Arab, Roman Emperor ; Titius Marcus Caesidius Aquila Cornelianus, curator rei publicae (Nicomedia)

Nicomedia

1 Libra = 1 Litra

Lead

Cast

Polygon (pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, etc.)

9.30 cm

9.30 cm

- cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
507.65	-	-	Auction Leu 2022, 2023	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche

Auction Leu 2022, 2023: Bithynia. Nicomedia. Philip I, 244-249. Weight of 1 Litra (Lead, 93x99 mm, 507.65 g, 12 h), L. Egnatius Victor Lollianus, legatus pro praetore of Pontus and Bithynia, Titus Marcus Caesilius Aquila Cornelianus, logistes, and Marcus Ulpius Pius, Bithyniarch and agoranomos, RY 5 = 247/248. ETOYΣ•E•TΩN KY/PIΩN MON AYTOK/PATOPΩN•M•I૪ΛIΩN / ΦΙΛΙΠΠΩN ΣEBAΣΤΩ/N YΠATEYONTOΣ THΣ EΠA/PXEIAΣ Λ[...]IKTOP ΛO/ΛΛIANOY ΠΡEΣBEYT/૪ KAI ANTIΣΤPATI/ΓO૪ TΩN ΣEBAΣ/TΩN ΛITPA. Rev. KAI ΛOΓIΣTE/YONTOΣ•TOY KPAT/IΣΤOY•TITI૪•M•KAI/ΣIΛIOY A[KYΛ]A KOP/NHΛIAN[OY AΓ]OPAN/MOYNTO[Σ M]APKOY / OYΛΠIOY ΠIOY B/EIΘYNIAPXOY. [Öztürk 2019], pp. 251-256 var. (slightly differing legends and lacking the weight unit). Of the highest rarity, the second known example and the first of this variety. Pierced, otherwise, very fine.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type
Greek	Relief	Authority, Date, Denomination

ETOYΣ•E•TΩN KY
PIΩN MON AYTOK
PATOPΩN•M•I૪ΛIΩN
ΦΙΛΙΠΠΩN ΣEBAΣΤΩ
N YΠATEYONTOΣ THΣ EΠA
PXEIAΣ Λ[...]IKTOP ΛO
ΛΛIANOY ΠΡEΣBEYT
૪ KAI ANTIΣΤPATI
ΓO૪ TΩN ΣEBAΣ
TΩN ΛITPA

KAI ΛOΓIΣTE
YONTOΣ•TOY KPAT
IΣΤOY•TITI૪•M•KAI
ΣIΛIOY A[KYΛ]A KOP
NHΛIAN[OY AΓ]OPAN
MOYNTO[Σ M]APKOY
OYΛΠIOY ΠIOY B
EIΘYNIAPXOY

Ἔτους εʹ τῶν [κυ]|ρίων͜ ἡ͜μῶν Αὐτοκ|ρατόρων Μ(άρκων) Ἰουλίων | Φιλίππων ͜Σεβαστῶ|ν, ὑπατ͜ε[ύοντος] τῆ͜ς ἐπα|ρχείας Λ[ου(κίου) Ἐγν]α[τ(ίου) Οὐ]ίκτορ(ος) Λο|λλιανοῦ πρεσβευτ|οῦ καὶ ἀντιστρατή|γου τῶν Σεβασ|τῶν λίτρα || [κ]αὶ λογιστε|ύοντος τοῦ κρατ|ίστου Τιτ[ίου Μ(άρκου)] Και|σιδίου [Ἀκύλα] Κορ|ν͜ηλιαν[οῦ, ἀγ]ορανο|μοῦντ[ος Μ]άρκου | Οὐλπίου Πίου Δ|ημητριανοῦ Β|ειθυνιάρχου.

Öztürk 2022:
(Side A)
Ἔτους εʹ τῶ͜ν ͜κ[υ]|ρίων͜ ἡ͜μῶν Αὐτοκ|ρατόρων · Μ(άρκων) · Ἰο͜υλίων ||4 Φιλίππων
͜Σεβαστῶ|ν, ὑπατ͜ε[ύοντο]ς τῆ͜ς ἐπα|ρχείας Λ̣(ουκίου) Ἐ̣[γν]α(τίου) Ο̣͜ὐ̣ί̣(κ)τορ̣(ος)
Λο|λλι̣ανοῦ π̣ρ̣εσβευτ||8ο͜ῦ καὶ ἀντιστρατ͜ή|γου τῶν Σεβασ|τῶν λί̣τρα
(Side B)
[κ]αὶ λογιστ͜ε||12ύοντος τοῦ κρατ|ίστου · Τιτί̣ο̣͜υ̣ Μ̣(άρκου) Και|σιδίου Ἀ̣[κύ]λ̣α
Κορ|νηλιαν[οῦ, ἀ]γ̣ορανο||16μοῦντο̣[ς Μ]ά̣ρκου | Οὐλπίου Π̣ίου Δ|ημητριανοῦ
Β|ειθυνιάρχου.

GREEK , ROMAN

FROM 247 TO 248

Year 5 of the (joint) reign of Philip the Arab and Philip II.

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Private Collection #20230712, Switzerland	Feb. 28, 2022	None
Antiquities Trade	July 12, 2023	None

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
Auction Leu 2022a	None	3414	None	None
Öztürk et al. 2022	207–208	2	None	None
Auction Leu 2023b	None	5795	None	None

Auction Leu 2022: This weight mentions three key magistrates in the civic life of Nicomedia: firstly, the Roman governor of the province of Pontus and Bithynia, L. Egnatius Victor Lollianus; secondly, the logistes (a fiscal officer), Titus Marcus Caesilius Aquila Cornelianus, and thirdly, Marcus Ulpius Pius, who held the offices of Bithyniarch and agoranomos. The exact nature of the office of Bithyniarch (or, for that matter, the Asiarch, Galatiarch or Lyciarch in the provinces of Asia, Galatia and Lycia) is unclear, but he likely presided over the koinon, the provincial assembly, and was perhaps expected to finance the public games in honor of the gods and the emperor. As agoranomos, Pius was also the market overseer of Nicomedia and thus responsible for the production of standardized market weights such as this piece. It is worth noting that, unlike the example published by Öztürk, our example does mention the weight unit, a litra.
Auction Leu 2022: As for the legate L. Egnatius Victor Lollianus, his career is very impressive. Entering public life under the later Severans, he became the governor of Galatia in 218 and suffect consul sometime between 225 and 230. In the 230s, Lollianus served as the corrector of Achaea and perhaps as legate of Pannonia Inferior, and in 242-244, he was the proconsul of Asia. Furthermore, our weight shows that he continued his successful career under Philip I, as he served as legate of Pontus and Bithynia in the later 240s. It is also believed that Lollianus was the sister of Egnatia Mariniana, Valerian's wife. Mariniana most likely died before her husband's bid for power in 253, but her deification and the extensive coinage struck in her name attests her significance to Valerian's imperial self-representation. As Gallienus' mother, she played a crucial role in the propagation of a new dynastic rule in Rome, destined to bring peace and prosperity to the crisis-ridden empire. As the emperor's brother-in-law and Gallienus' uncle, Lollianus was kept in high regard at the court and his career culminated in becoming the Praefectus urbi of Rome in 254.

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