Bricault & Mondello specimen no. S15.1

Obverse: DEO SER-APIDI - Draped and bearded bust of Serapis r., wearing a modius

Reverse: VOTA-PVBLICA - Serapis, wearing a modius, standing front, head turned r., with his r. hand raised and holding a globe in his l.

Physical Description

Measurements
- Diameter: 19

Typological Description

Source: Bricault & Mondello type no. 135

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, Serie II, 7), Budapest 1937, no.164, pls. IV, 27, and XVI, 33.

Administrative History

Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room, Oxford

Notes

Note: Once held in the Ashmolean Museum; now lost. A photo of the specimen was published by Andreas Alföldi (1937), who was still able to examine it.

Rights

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

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