Bricault & Mondello specimen no. S79.1

Obverse: DEO SE-RAPIDI or DEO SE-RAPIPI (sic) or DEO SAR-APID (sic) - Draped and bearded bust of Serapis r., wearing a modius

Reverse: V-O-TA P-VBLICA or VOTA P-VBLI-CA or VO[TA PV]BLICA (break uncertain) - Sphinx seated r. on its hind legs with l. foreleg raised

Physical Description

Measurements
- Diameter: 14
Axis: 6

Typological Description

Source: Bricault & Mondello type no. 140

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. 133, pls. III, 49, and XIII, 37.

Administrative History

Collection: Herzogliches Museum, Gotha

Notes

Note: Pierced at about 2 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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