BACCHIUS IUDAEUS : A Denarius Commemorating Pompey's Victory over Judea

BACCHIUS IUDAEUS : A Denarius Commemorating Pompey's Victory over Judea

James M. Scott

Språken
FörlagVandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN9783647540450

James M. Scott examines a denarius minted in Rome in 55 bce which is visually fascinating but conceptually enigmatic. On its obverse, around the head of a female figure with turreted crown, appears the name A. Plautius, who held the office of aedilis curulis in that year; on its reverse is a camel,