Garigliano 4

Physical Description

• Measurements

  • Diameter: 17
  • Weight: 2.57

Typological Description

Source: TURS 34

• Object Type: Token

• Date Range

  • From Date: 63 AD
  • To Date: 63 AD
• Material: Lead
• Manufacture: Cast
• Shape: circle

• Obverse

  • Portrait: Nero

• Geographic

  • Region: Italy

Findspot Description

• Findspot

  • Description: Garigliano river, 80 miles south of Rome and 35 miles north of Naples. The co-ordinates here are merely representative rather than an accurate find location. The tokens were recovered along with a miniature decorated leaden two-handled amphora, and (reportedly) further tokens and votive objects (e.g. small statuettes) and leaden defixio curses. Apparently they were recovered from the river in a single scoop of the dredge. Mitchiner notes the overall assembly suggests deposition in a local river shrine.
  • Findspot: Garigliano River (Italy)

  • Point

    • Coordinates: 41.3140277, 13.893085

References

• Reference: Mitchiner, M. (1984). Rome: Imperial portrait tesserae from the city of Rome and imperial tax tokens from the province of Egypt. Numismatic Chronicle 144: 95-114.

Rights

• CopyrightHolder: University of Warwick