Coin Portraying Empress Julia Mamaea

Art Institute of Chicago

Coin Portraying Empress Julia Mamaea

Roman

Date
222-235
Medium
Bronze
Culture
Roman Empire
Department
Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

The front (obverse) of this coin portrays the bust of Julia Mamaea, the mother of Roman Emperor Alexander Severus, facing to the right, draped, and diademed. On the back (reverse), the goddess Venus is seated, facing to the left. Coins recorded the ever-changing hairdos of the royal ladies in Rome and carried the new fashions to the far corners of the empire.

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Object type
AAT300037334

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