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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 7968411, member: 51347&quot;]<b>PLATFORM</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-6-21_12-20-58-png.1134574/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>RR</p><p>Mussidius Longus</p><p>42 BCE</p><p>AR Denarius</p><p>Radiant Sol</p><p>The shrine of Venus Cloacina; a low circular platform surmounted by two statues of the goddess, each resting right hand on cippus, the platform inscribed CLOACIN and ornamented with trellis-pattern balustrade, with flight of steps and portico on left; L•MVSSIDIVS•LONGVS above</p><p>S 494 Cr494-42</p><p><br /></p><p>Comments: This denarius celebrates a shrine to one of the more unlikely patron deities of the Roman pantheon: Venus Cloacina - the Venus who protected the sewer system (the Cloaca Maxima) of Rome. The Cloaca Maxima was said to have been built under the Etruscan kings, Tarquinius Priscus and Tarquinius Superbus, as a means of draining the swampland around the city’s seven hills. In order to protect the drainage system the Sabine king Titus Tatius was said to have erected a shrine to honor Cloacina, the spirit of the sewer who came to be identified with Venus in the Republican period. By some bizarre twist, the composite goddess Venus Cloacina was ultimately recognized as having two spheres of authority: the protection of the sewers, and the protection of the marital bed.Apparently the Roman Republican mind spent more time in the gutter than is usually admitted[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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