Hephaistos in Pisidia: Establishing the importance of a coin type, Revue belge de numismatique et de sigillographie 161 (2015): 325-342 (original) (raw)

AlthouhHephaistos,theodoffire,wasoneofthelesserodsvenerated inPisidia,hiscultainedimportanceinsomeofthecitiesofthereionbetween220 and270ce.ispaperwishestoillustratethedeity'spopularityandtointerpretthe phenomenonwithinitswiderhistoricalcontext,bycombininarchaeoloical,numis-maticandeoloicaldata.eimaeofHephaistosforinashieldfeaturesoncivic coinsfromSeleukeia,SeleandSaalassosbetween219and270ce,whilearchaeo-loical and eoloical evidence points to the contemporaryimportance of iron production in these cities.e paper contends that the bronze issues depictin theod canprobablybelinkedtotheproductionofarmstosupplytheRomanarmy,corres-pondintotherowinstrateicandloisticalimportanceofthereionwithinthe contextofthebroaderimperialevents.