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Description: | OBV: Head of Nero, laurate, bearded, l.
Leg: NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P (l. to r.)
REV: Overhead view of the harbour of Ostia; to l., crescent-shaped pier, with portico of twelve pillars, figure sacrificing at altar, and building at end; to r., crescent-shaped row of nine (?) 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. In centre, seven ships.
Leg: AVG VSTI (in arc above), S POR OST C (in arc below)
ISSU Nero c64-66 AD Rome Italy HCC 48, RIC 94, BMC p. 222n. | 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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