Person
Name	Aulos
	Magistrate in Cyzicus/Mysia during the reign of Antoninus Pius. His name is often misread as "Lydos" (the coin legend is mainly read as ΕΠΙ ΛΥΔΟΥ, with the exception of F. W. Hasluck, Cyzicus (1910) p. 306, who reads ΑΥΛΟΥ instead. This is confirmed by a coin in Munich, see RPC IV,2 [online] Temp. no. 7139) and it does remarkably appear without any title on coins issued under Antoninus Pius (group 2). For the coins see RPC IV,2 (online) Temp. nos. 668 and 7139 (147-161 AD). Lit.: W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 649 s. v. Lydos (AD 138-161); Th. Corsten (ed.), Lexicon of Greek Personal Names V A. Coastal Asia Minor (2010) p. 273 s. v. Lydos (no. 6) (AD 138-161).
Types	Magistrate (Ant)
	http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/id/V5a-16636
Nomisma	https://nomisma.org/id/aulos_cyzicus
Permalink	https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/10509
created	10.05.2024
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Person

Name

Aulos

Magistrate in Cyzicus/Mysia during the reign of Antoninus Pius.

His name is often misread as "Lydos" (the coin legend is mainly read as ΕΠΙ ΛΥΔΟΥ, with the exception of F. W. Hasluck, Cyzicus (1910) p. 306, who reads ΑΥΛΟΥ instead. This is confirmed by a coin in Munich, see RPC IV,2 [online] Temp. no. 7139) and it does remarkably appear without any title on coins issued under Antoninus Pius (group 2).

For the coins see RPC IV,2 (online) Temp. nos. 668 and 7139 (147-161 AD).

Lit.: W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 649 s. v. Lydos (AD 138-161); Th. Corsten (ed.), Lexicon of Greek Personal Names V A. Coastal Asia Minor (2010) p. 273 s. v. Lydos (no. 6) (AD 138-161).

Types

Magistrate (Ant)

http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/id/V5a-16636

Nomisma

https://nomisma.org/id/aulos_cyzicus

Permalink

https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/10509

created

10.05.2024

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