Bricault & Mondello specimen no. S&I17.1

Obverse: DEO SER-APIDI - Jugate, draped busts r. of Serapis, bearded and wearing a modius, and Isis, wearing a basileion

Reverse: VO-TA PV-BLICA - Isis standing l. in a tensa drawn by two mules, holding a sistrum in her r. hand and the reins in her l.

Physical Description

Measurements
- Diameter: 18
- Weight: 1.80
Axis: 12

Typological Description

Source: Bricault & Mondello type no. 260

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. 373, pl. VII, 26, and XVI, 22.

Administrative History

Identifier: 1903.5989
Collection: Historisches Museum, Basel

Description

Pierced twice at about 9 o’clock and approximately upon the nose of Serapis on the right hand side, respectively.

Rights

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

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