Bricault & Mondello specimen no. S27.2

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

Reverse: VOT-A P-VBL-ICA - Serapis-Agathodaemon on the l., wearing a modius, and Isis-Thermouthis on the r., wearing a basileion, facing one another, both of them with a snake body, carrying a sacred vase between them from which a serpent emerges

Physical Description

Measurements
- Diameter: 18
Axis: 1

Typological Description

Source: Bricault & Mondello type no. 141

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. 239, pl. V, 24.

Administrative History

Collection: Herzogliches Museum, Gotha

Notes

Note: Pierced at 1 o’clock.

Rights

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

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