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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4585115, member: 89514&quot;]Limes refers to my Forum text of 2014; here is that full text. It will be seen that what Limes calls the standard description of the LAETITIA TEMPORVM type in the numismatic trade derives from this text.</p><p><br /></p><p>A wonderful <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow">type</a>, and <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=rare" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=rare" rel="nofollow">rare</a>. <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=sear" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=sear" rel="nofollow">Sear</a>&#039;s interpretation is incomplete and incorrect, however! Here my description of a similar <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=denarius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=denarius" rel="nofollow">denarius</a> in <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=harlan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=harlan" rel="nofollow">Harlan</a> <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=berk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=berk" rel="nofollow">Berk</a>&#039;s stock:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=432" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=432" rel="nofollow">Caracalla</a>, <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=55&amp;pos=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=55&amp;pos=0" rel="nofollow">Rome</a>, 206 AD, <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=denarius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=denarius" rel="nofollow">Denarius</a>, 2.68 g. BM-508, C-118 (50 Fr.),&nbsp; RIC-157 (R3). Obv:&nbsp; ANTONINVS <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=pivs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=pivs" rel="nofollow">PIVS</a> <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=avg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=avg" rel="nofollow">AVG</a> <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=head" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=head" rel="nofollow">Head</a> laureate r.&nbsp; Rx: <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=laetitia%20temporvm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=laetitia%20temporvm" rel="nofollow">LAETITIA TEMPORVM</a> The spina of the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=circus%20maximus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=circus%20maximus" rel="nofollow">Circus Maximus</a> decorated as a ship facing l., with the turning posts at its prow and stern, a sail mounted on the central obelisk, and the spina&#039;s other monuments visible in between; above the ship, four quadrigas racing l.;&nbsp; below, seven <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" rel="nofollow">animals</a>:&nbsp; an ostrich at l. and bear at r.; between them a <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1804" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1804" rel="nofollow">lion</a> and a lioness chasing a wild ass and a <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1809" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1809" rel="nofollow">panther</a> (indistinct on this specimen) attacking a bison. <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=rare" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=rare" rel="nofollow">Rare</a>:&nbsp; only two specimens in <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=reka%20devnia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=reka%20devnia" rel="nofollow">Reka Devnia</a> <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=872&amp;pos=0&amp;open=872" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=872&amp;pos=0&amp;open=872" rel="nofollow">hoard</a>.&nbsp; This famous <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow">type</a> commemorates the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1839" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1839" rel="nofollow">chariot</a> races and animal <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=hunt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=hunt" rel="nofollow">hunt</a> that took place on the seventh and final day of <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=429&amp;pos=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=429&amp;pos=0" rel="nofollow">Severus</a>&#039; Saecular Games in 204 AD, as described in the inscriptional acts of those games which were found in <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=55&amp;pos=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=55&amp;pos=0" rel="nofollow">Rome</a> in the 1870s and 1930s.&nbsp; According to the acts, after three days of sacrifices and three days of honorary stage shows, <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=429&amp;pos=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=429&amp;pos=0" rel="nofollow">Severus</a> and <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=432" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=432" rel="nofollow">Caracalla</a> held <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=circus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=circus" rel="nofollow">circus</a> games on the seventh day, consisting of <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1839" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1839" rel="nofollow">chariot</a> races and then a <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=hunt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=hunt" rel="nofollow">hunt</a> of 700 beasts, 100 each of &quot;lions, lionesses, panthers, bears, bisons, wild <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=asses" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=asses" rel="nofollow">asses</a>, ostriches&quot;.&nbsp; Dio Cassius describes the same <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=hunt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=hunt" rel="nofollow">hunt</a>, adding the detail that the cage from which the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" rel="nofollow">animals</a> were discharged was formed like a boat:&nbsp; &quot;The entire receptacle in the theater <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=had" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=had" rel="nofollow">had</a> been fashioned in the shape of a boat and was capable of receiving or discharging four hundred beasts at once; and then, as it suddenly fell apart, there came rushing forth bears, lionesses, panthers, lions, ostriches, wild <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=asses" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=asses" rel="nofollow">asses</a>, bisons, so that 700 beasts in all, both wild and domesticated, at one and the same time were seen running about and were slaughtered.&nbsp; For to correspond with the duration of the festival, which lasted seven days, the number of the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" rel="nofollow">animals</a> was also seven times one hundred.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; In Dio&#039;s text this passage follows directly on <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=his" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=his" rel="nofollow">his</a> account of <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=429&amp;pos=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=429&amp;pos=0" rel="nofollow">Severus</a>&#039; Decennalian Games in 202 AD, causing scholars to accuse Dio of misdating the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=hunt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=hunt" rel="nofollow">hunt</a> to 202 or to postulate that similar hunts of 700 <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" rel="nofollow">animals</a> were held both in 202 and in 204.&nbsp; But the true explanation, in my opinion, is that Dio&#039;s <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=99&amp;pos=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=99&amp;pos=0" rel="nofollow">Byzantine</a> epitimator Xiphilinus, on whom we are dependent for this section of Dio&#039;s text, has simply jumped without warning or transition from Dio&#039;s description of the Decennalian Games of 202 to <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=his" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=his" rel="nofollow">his</a> description of the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=circus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=circus" rel="nofollow">circus</a> spectacle concluding the Saecular Games of 204.&nbsp;&nbsp; This hypothesis easily explains why Dio&#039;s text as we have it makes no mention of the Saecular Games themselves or of any event of 203:&nbsp; Xiphilinus omitted this whole section of Dio&#039;s <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1475" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1475" rel="nofollow">history</a>!&nbsp; The seven kinds of <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" rel="nofollow">animals</a> named by both Dio and the inscriptional acts are also depicted in the coin <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow">type</a>:&nbsp; on <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=good" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=good" rel="nofollow">good</a> specimens, especially the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=aureus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=aureus" rel="nofollow">aureus</a> BM pl. 34.4, the ostrich and the bear are clear, the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1804" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1804" rel="nofollow">lion</a> has a mane, the ass has long ears, the bison has horns and a hump.&nbsp; Two large felines remain, of which we may suppose that the one accompanying the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1804" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1804" rel="nofollow">lion</a> is the lioness and the one attacking the bison is the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1809" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1809" rel="nofollow">panther</a>.&nbsp; The <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" rel="nofollow">animals</a> are named somewhat differently in <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=cohen" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=cohen" rel="nofollow">Cohen</a>, <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=bmc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=bmc" rel="nofollow">BMC</a>, and other numismatic works:&nbsp; though numismatists have long cited Dio&#039;s text to explain the coin <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow">type</a>, no one previously seems to have posed the question whether the seven <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" rel="nofollow">animals</a> in the lower <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=part" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=part" rel="nofollow">part</a> of the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow">type</a> might not be the same seven that Dio and now the inscriptional acts too name!&nbsp;&nbsp; These <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=circus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=circus" rel="nofollow">circus</a> games with the ship and 700 <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1799" rel="nofollow">animals</a> were held in 204 AD, but the coin <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow">type</a> commemorating them did not appear until two years later:&nbsp; on <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=aurei" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=aurei" rel="nofollow">aurei</a> of Septimius the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow">type</a> is die linked to a dated <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow">type</a> of 206 AD, and for <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=432" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=432" rel="nofollow">Caracalla</a> the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow">type</a> passes from a draped and <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=cuirassed" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=cuirassed" rel="nofollow">cuirassed</a> <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=obverse" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=obverse" rel="nofollow">obverse</a> <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow">type</a> on the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=aureus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=aureus" rel="nofollow">aureus</a> to the &quot;<a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=head" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=head" rel="nofollow">head</a> only&quot; <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow">type</a> on <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=his" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=his" rel="nofollow">his</a> <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=denarii" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=denarii" rel="nofollow">denarii</a>, a transition that took place in 206 AD according to <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=his" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=his" rel="nofollow">his</a> dated coins. (By <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=curtis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=curtis" rel="nofollow">Curtis</a> Clay).</p><p><br /></p><p>In the same thread I also stated:</p><p><br /></p><p>The Acts of the games record that the animal <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=hunt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=hunt" rel="nofollow">hunt</a> was held on the same day as the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1839" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1839" rel="nofollow">chariot</a> races.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1839" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1839" rel="nofollow">chariot</a> races could only be held in the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=circus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=circus" rel="nofollow">Circus</a>, so it seems likely that the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=hunt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=hunt" rel="nofollow">hunt</a> was held there too, rather than requiring over 100,000 spectators to tramp from the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=circus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=circus" rel="nofollow">Circus</a> to the Amphitheater! We know that hunts were held in the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=circus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=circus" rel="nofollow">Circus</a> on other occasions.</p><p><br /></p><p>The boat-like receptacle remains a little mysterious. Was it constructed just around the obelisk of the spina? The whole spina, at some 300 yards long, seems too long to have been transformed into a convincing ship, as the coins show.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: right"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/Themes/classic/images/icons/modify_inline.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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