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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3041378, member: 75937"]Nope! I don't mind at all! I <i>encourage</i> it! That's a lovely example. You can see on your coin that the empress is wearing a <i>palla</i>, which, along with her hairstyle, is another similarity between coins of this issue and those issued posthumously in her honor. On the majority of Faustina's posthumous issues, she wears a <i>palla</i>, a woven rectangle made of wool that a Roman matron wore over her<i> stola</i> when she went outside. The garment was draped over the shoulders and around the body or over the head and was fastened by brooches, which were worn lower on the body than would be depicted on coinage. The garment was the feminine version of the <i>pallium</i> that a man would wear.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]759224[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]759225[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Faustina Junior, AD 161-175</font></p><p><font size="3">Roman AR denarius, 2.75 gm 19.1 mm, 11 h</font></p><p><font size="3">Rome, AD 175-180</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA PIA, bare-headed and draped bust, right</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev: CONSECRATIO, Pietas (or Vesta), veiled and draped, standing facing, head left, sacrificing over lighted altar from patera in left hand and holding vertical scepter in right hand.</font></p><p><font size="3">Refs: RIC 741; BMCRE 711; RSC 66c; RCV 5214; CRE 204.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, it does make one wonder. There are no coins in the Roman imperial series that directly reference the Carmentalia or Carmenta or her epithets, <i>Postvorta</i> and <i>Antevorta</i>. We don't know much about the festival, and there is some evidence that Carmenta worship was indeed associated with childbirth, but there is little evidence that the festival itself was to celebrate birth per se. Her epithets, <i>Postvorta</i> (looking backward) and <i>Antevorta </i>(looking forward), reference her power of looking back into the past and forward into the future. Thus, Carmenta may better be seen as a female version of Janus. <a href="http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Carmentalia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Carmentalia" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is a very good and scholarly discussion of what it known about the festival.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, if the festival celebrated childbirth in some way--and it may well have--it makes one wonder if perhaps some of the Fecunditas issues of the various empresses were issued as part of the Carmentalia celebrations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3041378, member: 75937"]Nope! I don't mind at all! I [I]encourage[/I] it! That's a lovely example. You can see on your coin that the empress is wearing a [I]palla[/I], which, along with her hairstyle, is another similarity between coins of this issue and those issued posthumously in her honor. On the majority of Faustina's posthumous issues, she wears a [I]palla[/I], a woven rectangle made of wool that a Roman matron wore over her[I] stola[/I] when she went outside. The garment was draped over the shoulders and around the body or over the head and was fastened by brooches, which were worn lower on the body than would be depicted on coinage. The garment was the feminine version of the [I]pallium[/I] that a man would wear. [ATTACH=full]759224[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]759225[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Faustina Junior, AD 161-175 Roman AR denarius, 2.75 gm 19.1 mm, 11 h Rome, AD 175-180 Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA PIA, bare-headed and draped bust, right Rev: CONSECRATIO, Pietas (or Vesta), veiled and draped, standing facing, head left, sacrificing over lighted altar from patera in left hand and holding vertical scepter in right hand. Refs: RIC 741; BMCRE 711; RSC 66c; RCV 5214; CRE 204.[/SIZE] Yes, it does make one wonder. There are no coins in the Roman imperial series that directly reference the Carmentalia or Carmenta or her epithets, [I]Postvorta[/I] and [I]Antevorta[/I]. We don't know much about the festival, and there is some evidence that Carmenta worship was indeed associated with childbirth, but there is little evidence that the festival itself was to celebrate birth per se. Her epithets, [I]Postvorta[/I] (looking backward) and [I]Antevorta [/I](looking forward), reference her power of looking back into the past and forward into the future. Thus, Carmenta may better be seen as a female version of Janus. [URL='http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Carmentalia']Here[/URL] is a very good and scholarly discussion of what it known about the festival. However, if the festival celebrated childbirth in some way--and it may well have--it makes one wonder if perhaps some of the Fecunditas issues of the various empresses were issued as part of the Carmentalia celebrations.[/QUOTE]
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