TURS 926

Typological Description

  • Object Type: Token

  • Date Range

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

  • Obverse

    • Type: Phallus, pointing upwards within crescent.

  • Reverse

    • Type: Ciliarch crown?

References

Notes

  • Note: The fabric, manufacture and design of this type is not typical of the other tokens from Rome and Ostia, and it is likely to originate from elsewhere in the Mediterranean. Rostovtzeff identified the image on side b as a flower.