A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

Actius under Augustus through to the recurrent types of Concordia, Salus, Pietas, Vesta, and Genius, among others, down to the e ...

cultic imagery discussed above, this group of images is general in its meaning. They all refer in a non-specific fashion to a de ...

Optimus Maximus (“Best and Greatest”) is all but missing from the coinage apart from a brief flurry of references in the civil w ...

for the coinage of Egypt made at Alexandria, which in this, as in other, respects tends to follow the pattern of the mint of Rom ...

reigns, at least until late antiquity (see below). It is unclear whether this should be understood as a specifically religious r ...

Christianity and the Roman Coinage Over the fourth centuryad, there are only intermittent indications of the increas- ing Christ ...

Constantinus(Divine Constantine) in the legend (fig. 11.35). Christianity did not fully convert the coinage until the fifth cent ...

There is also negative evidence for a change in what was regarded as appropriate on Roman coins in the new religious atmosphere. ...

of divinities and virtuous personifications to provide figural types also resulted in a far greater concentration in the fourth ...

Sacra Moneta? For most of their circulating lives, Roman coins were not treated as religious objects, despite the fact that they ...

CHAPTER TWELVE Reliefs, Public and Private Katja Moede Rituals and cultic events are among the predominant themes of Roman art, ...

Reliefs, Public and Private 165 Rome (Ryberg 1955: 130; Fless 1995: cat. 1 pl. 40 fig. 2; Ferrea 2002), on the Munich/Paris Cens ...

of the relief. Both insignia combined, otherwise restricted to higher offices, were acces- sible to freedmen in Rome only throug ...

at the altar while the procession leading the animals, a pig and a bull, arrives. Animal sacrifices like this had been performed ...

their privilege, raising them above the other participants in the cult for that period. As the sacrificial scene is to mark thei ...

reliefs is in Florence today and shows the Vicennaliaof Hadrian inad 137, but was found in Rome in 1569, where it was part of th ...

emperor. A medallion of Antoninus Pius fromad 158/9 also uses the bull-killing scene, and the inscription identifies the occasio ...

fig. 60 a–e) shows the inauguration of an altar for the goddess Ceres (Veyne 1959). The goddess herself is shown in the frieze b ...

are shown as members of processions (as on the big friezes of the Ara Pacis) they do not perform their specific cults. They only ...

cow being milked, but rather depicts the testing of a sacrificial victim. Though heavily restored, the original parts of the gro ...