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Contributor:
Walter C. Holt. |
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Issuer: |
CALIGULA, AD 37-41. AE Sestertius. |
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Obverse: |
CAESAR DIVI AVG. PRON. AVG. P. M. TR. P. II, Pietas, veiled and draped, seated left, holding a patera in her right hand, left arm resting on a small, draped figure on a base. (Obverse and reverse are reversed in the image.) |
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Reverse: |
DIVO AVG. S. C., Caligula, veiled and togate, holding patera preparing to sacrifice bull in front of hexastyle (six-columned) temple, with two attendants assisting. |
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Reference: |
RIC 44 (Gaius). |
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Comments: |
For more information, read the "Gaius (Caligula)" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Caligula see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews. |