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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3475011, member: 99456"]A perspective on Roman sewers - with the added illusion of perspective in the "small person" on the right facing right, which is really not a person at all, but a column on the right side of the platform.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]924413[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="5"><b>Description</b></font></p><p><b>L. Mussidius Longus</b> AR Denarius, 42 BC, Rome</p><p><b>Obv:</b> CONCORDIA behind, diademed, veiled and draped bust of Concordia right; in lower right field, star.</p><p><b>Rev:</b> L MVSSIDIVS LONGVS, platform inscribed CLOACIN upon which two statues of Venus Cloacina</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Crawford 494/42b; Sydenham 1093a; Mussidia 6</p><p><br /></p><p>The platform on which the two statues stood still stands on the north side of the Forum in Rome</p><p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WxXu83RxSNwC&pg=PA10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WxXu83RxSNwC&pg=PA10" rel="nofollow">[ATTACH=full]924412[/ATTACH]</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3475011, member: 99456"]A perspective on Roman sewers - with the added illusion of perspective in the "small person" on the right facing right, which is really not a person at all, but a column on the right side of the platform. [ATTACH=full]924413[/ATTACH] [SIZE=5][B]Description[/B][/SIZE] [B]L. Mussidius Longus[/B] AR Denarius, 42 BC, Rome [B]Obv:[/B] CONCORDIA behind, diademed, veiled and draped bust of Concordia right; in lower right field, star. [B]Rev:[/B] L MVSSIDIVS LONGVS, platform inscribed CLOACIN upon which two statues of Venus Cloacina [B]Ref:[/B] Crawford 494/42b; Sydenham 1093a; Mussidia 6 The platform on which the two statues stood still stands on the north side of the Forum in Rome [URL='https://books.google.com/books?id=WxXu83RxSNwC&pg=PA10'][ATTACH=full]924412[/ATTACH][/URL][/QUOTE]
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