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Message:: [QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 25324184, member: 128351"]The design of L. Titurius Sabinus' denarius in 89 BC has been an inspiration for later artists.No doubt, this denarius represents Tarpeia being stoned with shields: the pile of shields from which her bust emerges is clear enough. This image was reproduced some decades later on denarii of P. Petronius Turpilianus, in 19/18 BC, without the warriors, just with Tarpeia facing, arms extended, half-buried in a pile of shields. But it is obvious that some people in modern times had an alternative reading of the scene visible on Sabinus' denarii : the woman could be a Sabine woman trying to stop the fight between Latins and Sabines. I think that David's painting "The Intervention of the Sabine Women" (1799) was inspired by Sabinus' denarius, or some other modern picture inspired by the denarius. At the woman's feet the pile of shields has been replaced by a pile of babies.Even later, in Tintin in the Congo, Hergé drew inspiration from David's picture, therefore from L. Titurius Sabinus' denarius, for a similar scene... [ATTACH=full]1618363[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]