A coin with Sidetian legend:
Pamphylia, Side, 370-360 BC
AR - Stater, 10.60g, 21.00mm, 165°
Obv.: Athena in double chiton stg. l., holding in extended r. hand statue of Nike and in l. hand spear and shield decorated with gorgoneion; left before pomegranate, behind arrow.
Rev.: Apollo Sidetes in short chiton and chlamys over his back stg. l., resting with raised l. hand on sceptre and holding patera in extended r. hand; left before him altar, before and behind Pamphylian legends.
Ref.: cf. Atlan 129; SNG France -; SNG Copenhagen 376; SNG von Aulock 4772
The best you can read about Sidetic is G. Petzl, Side im Altertum. Geschichte und Zeugnisse, 2 vols., Bonn 1993 and 2001. Petzl, in vol II p. 644-646 of the above mentioned work, deals with this coin inscription. He says that it is to be transcribed as siduwYiz, read from r. to left, with certain doubts from the u on, and interprets the word as an adjectivic derivation of the city name (ktetikon), so that it should mean "Sidetikon (coin)". The omega-shaped letter which made problems is turned upside down and is a d instead. The 5th and 6th sign are one and not two letters.
The visible legend on the rev. consists of 9 characters. Then we have fom right to left S I D U 5./6. unidentified, 7. unidentified, I (Sh). The barely legible legend on the left side is something like Greek ANAKTOV. The entire legend would be "Lord of Side"
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