Roman Provincial : ARABIA PETRAEA. Bostra. Julia Domna (AD 193-217). AE (26mm, 11h). NGC Choice Fine, repatinated. ...

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ARABIA PETRAEA. Bostra. Julia Domna (AD 193-217). AE (26mm, 11h). NGC Choice Fine, repatinated. ΙΟΥΛΙΑ-ΔΟΜΝΑ, draped bust of Julia Domna right / ΝΕ ΤΡ / ΒΟ?ΤΡΑ / ΕΤ ΡΔ, tetrastyle temple with central arch, Tyche standing facing within, head right, left foot on figure, grounded spear with trophy in right hand, cornucopia cradled in left arm. RPC V.3 Online Unassigned 68925. Pine patina with lime backlight.

Julia Domna was of Syrian-Arab ancestry, as the daughter of the hereditary high priest of Elagabal at Emesa, a wealthy caravan city in the Syrian desert. Beautiful, cultured, and highly educated, she was made even more of a "prize" by a horoscope that proclaimed she would marry a king. Septimius Severus probably encountered her family while serving as a general in Syria in the AD 180s; when he learned of the horoscope, he immediately wrote to her father and secured her hand in marriage. Upon Severus' ascension as Roman Emperor in AD 193, Julia was named Augusta and became his closest advisor and confidant. Her love of art, learning and philosophy manifested in a cultural Renaissance in Rome. In AD 217, Caracalla was assassinated. Julia Domna, who was already suffering from breast cancer, died by self-starvation.

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