FEL TEMO REPARATIO "hut"

Thank you. Just a curiosity for me. Reminded me of a palm leaf fanning the flies away!

 

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Cool huts everyone, my few.

Doug

 

Very nice varieties in the post.
I have only Aquilea and Siscia mint:

 

I chose this one because it looks like the kid is trying to pull back.


Constans (AD 337-350). AE centenionalias, Alexandria mint. 4.80g, 20mm. Struck AD 348-350.
Obv: D N CONSTANS P F AVG; Pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust left, holding globe in right hand
Rev: FEL TEMP REPARATIO; ALEG; Soldier dragging young barbarian from hut
Ref: RIC VIII 58; LRBC 2818

 

Excellent photos! All seem the same color and general appearance. Were they all from one hoard?

 

Constantinpole.

 

Lugdunum has two primary types

Three branches made up of a single large leaf

five branches with oval leaves (with stripes across them horizontally)

 

Siscia
Multiple branches, three leaves on each

three horizontal branches, each with a large single leaf

 

Thessalonica
Three major branches with what appear to be fruit rather than leaves with some small bare branches


Three branches with single leaves

 

That last hut is very interesting. The die engraver seems to have gone a little further in trying to represent the actual hut in three dimensions, or at least the beginning of the right half of the hut. Unless I’m seeing things.

 

As I've noted ad nauseum elsewhere, I think early ms. illustrations such as the Roman Vergil can offer some underutilized and near-contemporary companion pieces to numismatic iconography. What was the die engraver seeing in his mind when carving those huts on the die? Probably the kinds of structures represented in these pictures.

I wonder what that item is that seems to hang down from the center of the hut's opening? Looks like a bag on a rope.

 

Where did the style of the hut originate? Hut coin? Manuscript? Were both copied from another original from an earlier period? Manuscripts of Vergil don't have to date to his era. Do we know when that one was drawn?

 

I’m not as familiar with the so-called Roman Vergil, from which these images come. But a similar ms., the Vatican Vergil, was conventionally thought to date from the mid-fifth century, but more recent scholarship has dated the VV to ca. 400, if not the late 4th c. I think the Roman Vergil might be similarly dated. Clearly the mss. come about 25-50 years after the coins, but I’d suggest they share a common understanding of what a rustic hut should look like.

 

BTW, I just won this Aquileia example for $10.50 shipped from Victor Clark’s eBay listings about 15 minutes ago. I liked the details on the smaller figure’s clothing. Victor’s photo:

 

Great coins all