Deities from Egypt on Coins of the Southern Levant

Abstract

This paper presents the numismatic evidence on the subject of the Isiatic diffusion in the
southern Levant during the Greco-Roman period. The phenomenon does not allow for
generalization varying in different time periods, geographical areas, and even from one
city to another. In several cases (Aelia Capitolina, Ascalon, Caesarea, ‘Akko-Ptolemais),
the Isiatic types on local coinage suggests the existence of a public cult.