Bricault & Mondello specimen no. S9.1

Obverse: DEO SEP-APIDI (sic) (Obverse legend starting at 1 o’clock) - Draped and bearded bust of Serapis l., wearing a modius

Reverse: VOTA-PV-B-L-IC-A - Isis, head turned r., holding a sistrum in her r. hand and a long scepter in her l., seated facing on the dog Sothis, who is running r. with head turned back l.

Physical Description

Measurements
- Diameter: 20
- Weight: 2.58
Axis: 12

Typological Description

Source: Bricault & Mondello type no. 143

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. 172, pls. X, 33, and XVI, 9.

Administrative History

Identifier: 102017
Collection: Museo Nazionale Romano

Rights

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

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