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Description: | Obv: Head of Nero, right, laureate;
in front; palm-branch incised.
Leg; around, IMPNEROCAESARAVGPMX
Rev; Apollo, wearing long robe, seated right on rocks, supporting his chin on his left hand; before him, Marsyas, naked, standing left beside a tree, his hands tied behind his back; on extreme right, a Scythian slave, kneeling right and looking backwards as he sharpens a knife. ISSU NERO Rome Italy Die axis:180
Marsyas group is discussed by Mrs Esdaile in Num. Chron.,1906, p.263 | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | MEDAL? : COUNTER? : APOLLO : MARSYAS : TREE : SCYTHIAN SLAVE : KNIFE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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