TURS 2940

Typological Description

• Object Type: Token

• Date Range

  • From Date: 1 AD
  • To Date: 300 AD
• Manufacture: Cast
• Material: Lead
• Shape: circle

• Obverse

  • Type: Simpulum (?) left (or dolphin right?).

• Reverse

  • Type: Vessel (amphora?).

• Geographic

  • Region: Italy

References

• Reference: Rostowzew, M. (1903). Tesserarum urbis romae et suburbi. St. Petersburg.
• Reference: https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000917434

Description

Rostovtzeff identified the figure on side a as a dolphin, but it might equally be a simpulum (depending on whether the die axis is 12 or 6). The only known specimen is BMCRLT 1513. Rostovtzeff suggested that side b carried the image of a palm branch, but the image is closer to that of a vessel.