Bricault & Mondello specimen no. I52.1

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Obverse: VOTA P-VBLICA - Draped bust of Isis l., wearing a basileion and holding a sistrum in her r. hand

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Reverse: VOTA PVBL-ICA - Nilus reclining l. in a cart drawn r. by two hippopotami, holding an uncertain object (a cornucopia?) in his r. hand

Physical Description

Measurements
- Diameter: 20
- Weight: 3.33
Axis: 12

Typological Description

Source: Bricault & Mondello type no. 229

Object Type: Token
Date Range
- From Date: 361 AD
- To Date: 394 AD
Manufacture: Struck
Shape: Circle
Geographic
- Mint: Rome
- Region: Italy

References

Reference: A. Alföldi, Isis-szertartások Rómában a negyedik század keresztény császárai alatt = A Festival of Isis in Rome under the Christian Emperors of the IVth Century (Dissertationes Pannonicae ex Instituto Numismatico et Archaeologico Universitatis de Petro Pàzmàny Nominatae Budapestinensis Provenientes, Series II, 7), Budapest 1937, no. 333, pls. X, 6, and XIV, 52.

Administrative History

Identifier: 16457
Collection: BnF

Description

Pierced at about 12 o’clock; stripes on obverse.

Rights

CopyrightHolder: The institution where the token is housed.
License: All images are copyright of their respective institutions (images)

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