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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nemo, post: 2471601, member: 58462&quot;]When I hear aegis, I think Domitian!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]520108[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Domitian AR Denarius AD 85</b></p><p>Domitian. AD 81-96. AR Denarius, 20mm, 3.50g. Rome mint. Struck AD 85</p><p>O: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P IIII; Laureate bust Domitian right with aegis</p><p>R: IMP VIIII COS XI CENS POT P P; Minerva standing right on capital of rostral column with spear and shield; aegis draped over back with snakes around; owl to right.</p><p>- RIC 334</p><p><br /></p><p>Minerva was clearly the favorite goddess and patroness of Domitian, evidenced here by his wearing of her aegis.</p><p>In the Thebaid Minerva is represented as a terrifying battle goddess, entrusted with Jupiter&#039;s horrible aegis, that terrifies the Thebans. The popular perception of Domitian as cruel and capricious was entirely consistent with the wanton destructiveness of Minerva in the epic.</p><p><br /></p><p>What scene is portrayed on the center of the capital?</p><p>From Dressel, Berlin Medallions (published 1973), p. 14, note 1: &#039;Cohen 237 note says, &quot;a standing figure and a seated figure&quot;. Gnecchi, Medaglioni I, p. 43, 4 says &quot;two small figures, the one on the left seated and the second one kneeling before the seated figure&quot;. As can be seen on many of the more carefully engraved specimens [Dressel continues], the first figure is shown seated right, while the second figure kneels before the first figure, with arms raised in entreaty.&#039;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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