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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dltsrq, post: 7959464, member: 75482&quot;]I agree. Although <i>damnatio memoriae</i> is Latin, it&#039;s a modern term first used at the end of the 17th century to describe a certain category of official acts. I would reserve it&#039;s use for mutilation sanctioned by the emperor or the Senate and corroborated by contemporary records, defacement of statues, erasement of public inscriptions, etc<i>.</i> Examples would include the removal of Geta&#039;s portrait on the first coin below or the erasure of the name of the consul Sejanus, accused of a plot to overthrow Tiberius, on the second.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1379817[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1379818[/ATTACH]</p><p>I would not dilute the definition by including some of the more subjective candidates discussed above. Not that a coin with what appears to be an intentional gash across the neck of an unpopular emperor isn&#039;t interesting, it&#039;s just not what I would classify as <i>damnatio memoriae </i>in the strict sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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