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Source Description
Obverse: King Aretas of Nabatea kneeling in supplication right; camel standing behind, right. Reverse: Figure (Victory?) in quadriga (4-horse chariot), left; scorpion beneath horses’ forefeet; inscription in exergue curls around to right edge. Although the obverse honors Scaurus’ defeat of Aretas of Nabatea in 62 BCE, the reverse, in classic Republican style, references an old victory over the city of Privernum in the 4th century BCE by an ancestor of the man (P. Hypsaeus) minting the coin.
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Document identity
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1584
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Denarius of Publius Plautius Hypsaeus and Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
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Source metadata
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1584
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normalized
title
Denarius of Publius Plautius Hypsaeus and Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
description
Obverse: King Aretas of Nabatea kneeling in supplication right; camel standing behind, right. Reverse: Figure (Victory?) in quadriga (4-horse chariot), left; scorpion beneath horses’ forefeet; inscription in exergue curls around to right edge. Although the obverse honors Scaurus’ defeat of Aretas of Nabatea in 62 BCE, the reverse, in classic Republican style, references an old victory over the city of Privernum in the 4th century BCE by an ancestor of the man (P. Hypsaeus) minting the coin.
provenance
Mrs. Sidney C. Doolittle, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1974, by gift.
date
58 BCE (Roman Republican)
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CC0
language
en
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coins
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1
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Max diam: 11/16 in. (1.78 cm); axis: 5:00
Source extras
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Roman
inscriptions
[Inscription
Latin; obverse] M(arcus) SCAVR(us); in field
EX S(enatus) C(onsulto); in exergue
REX ARETAS [Translation] Marcus Scaurus; by senatorial decree; King Aretas [Inscription
Latin; reverse] P(ublius) HVPSAE(us) AED(ilis) CVR(ulis); in exergue
C(aius) HVPSAE(us) CO(n)S(ul) PREIVE(rno) CAPTV [Translation] Publius (Plautius) Hypsaeus
curule aedile; Gaius Hypsaeus
consul when Privernum was captured
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silver; struck
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6191
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none
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none
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photo
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