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Ceremonial departure of consul as general in Republican Rome
Traianus :
aureus
[1]
IMP
TRAIANO
OPTIMO AVG
GER
DAC P M
TR P , Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trajan to right.
PROFECTIO AUGUSTI,
Traianus , in military dress and hold spear, on horse walking to right; before him, soldier walking right, head turned back to left; behind, three soldiers walking right.
7,35 g, coined in 114/115.
Alexander Severus :
sestertius
[4]
IMP
SEV ALEXANDER AVG, laureate head to right, draped bust;
PROFECTIO AVGVSTI, Alexander Severus on horse, holding transverse spear, preceded by Victoria , with a crown and palm.
coined in 231/232.
The profectio consul in his guise as a general in
Republican Rome ,
[5] and of an
emperor during the
Imperial era .
[6] It was a conventional scene for
relief sculpture and imperial coinage.
[7] The return was the reditus
[8] and the ceremonial reentry the
adventus .
[9]
References
^
Roman Imperial Coinage , Traianus , II, 297; BMC 512 var. Calicó 986a. Cohen 40 var. Hill 690.
^
Roman Imperial Coinage , Marcus Aurelius , III 977; MIR 18, 191-6/30; Cohen 502.
^
Roman Imperial Coinage , Septimius Severus , IVa, 494; BMC 466. Cohen 580.
^
Roman Imperial Coinage , Alexander Severus , IVb, 596; Cohen, 492.
^ Andrew Feldherr, Spectacle and Society in Livy's History (University of California Press, 1998), pp. 9–10.
^ Erika Manders, Coining Images of Power: Patterns in the Representation of Roman Emperors on Imperial Coinage, A.D. 193–282 (Brill, 2012), p. 71.
^ Manders, Coining Images of Power, p. 70–76.
^ Geoffrey S. Sumi, Ceremony and Power: Performing Politics in Rome Between Republic and Empire (University of Michigan Press, 2005), p. 35.
^ Manders, Coining Images of Power, p. 70.
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