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Whether the Magistrate's name on the above coins is
Archipemptides or Peraptides we cannot positively decide.
Such a name as Archipemptides, although of course
possible, is quite new. Pemptides, on the other hand, is
a known Theban name. 31
If, therefore, we read Pemp-
tides, the legend of the coins must be completed thus R I
APXI [epews] neMFITIAOY, and we must suppose
Pemptides to have been high priest of the Imperial
cultus (TW Se/?aoroiv) at Thebes in the time of Galba. No
2E., size 4.
M., size 4.
is, however, known on any coin of Greece proper.
0HBAI HIM.
Female headr.,
turreted and
laur.
[Prok.-Ost., 1859, PI. II. 32.]
0HB AIHN.
Head of bearded
Herakles, 1.,
laur.
[Kenner, Stift St. Florian, p. 57.]
eni noAeM. r. K.
MAKPOY. Dionysus
wearing long robes, standing
r., holding kantharos.
en noAGM r.K. MAK-
POY. Club and arrow
crossed, border of dots.
These two coins may be attributed to a Roman of tne
name of Gaius Calpurnius Macer. It does not seem im-
probable that he may be identical with the Calpurnius
Macer who lived in the reign of Trajan, and was a corre-
spondent of the younger Pliny's.
Whether he issued money in virtue of his office of
Polemarch of Thebes, or whether the mention of his
magistracy is, as is sometimes the case, merely a state-
ment of the fact that while holding the office of moneyer
he was at the same time Polemarch, is a point which there
WNOKAETIAC, club and arrow. This, I think, must
be anothor misreading for 11 1 APXI HEM DTIAO Y.
31 Plut. Erot. XII., seqq. See also Keil's restoration of the in-
scription in Boeckh, C. I. GK, 1636, where the name also occurs.