- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1942.176.61
- People
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Augustus, Roman (r. 27 BCE - 14 CE)
- Title
- Cistophorus of Augustus, Ephesus
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- c. 25 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Ephesos (Ionia)
- Period
- Roman Imperial period, Early
- Culture
- Roman Imperial
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/197012
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 11.4 g
- Die Axis
- 12
- Denomination
- cistophorus
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Obverse Inscription: IMP CAESAR
- Reverse Inscription: AVGVSTVS
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- RIC I 2, 479, p. 80; BMCRE 694-695; Ashmolean 680,681
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The George Davis Chase Collection of Roman Coins, Gift of George Davis Chase, Professor of Classics and Dean of Graduate Study at the University of Maine
- Accession Year
- 1942
- Object Number
- 1942.176.61
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obv.: Head of Augustus, bare, r.; below, IMP CAESAR; line border.
Rev.: Garlanded altar sculpted with two confronting hinds; above, AVGVSTVS; line border.
- Exhibition History
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The Portrait, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2004 - 01/09/2005
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