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Description: | OBV: Head of Nero, laurate, bearded, r.
Leg: NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P (l. to r.)
REV: Overhead view of the harbour of Ostia; tol. crescent-shaped pier, with portico of eleven pillars, figure sacrificing at altar, and building at end; to r., crescent-shaped row of ten (?) breakwaters (or slips?). Between pier and breakwaters, above, figure standing l. on column set on round base, holding sceptre in l. hand. Below, Neptune, naked except for cloak, reclining l., holding rudder and dolphin. Four ships l., one in centre, two r.
Leg: AVG VSTI (in arc above), S POR OST C (in arc below)
ISSU Nero c64-66 AD Rome Italy HCC 39, RIC 90, BMC 131 | 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: | BUILDING : MONUMET : ALTAR : SACRIFICE : DEITY : NEPTUNE : ANIMAL : DOLPHIN : | 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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