Profectio

{{Short description|Ceremonial departure of consul as general in Republican Rome}}

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| caption_left = IMP TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trajan to right.

| caption_right = PROFECTIO AUGUSTI, Traianus, in military dress and hold spear, on horse walking to right; before him, soldier walking right, head turned back to left; behind, three soldiers walking right.

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| caption_left = M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXIIII, Laureate head right.

| caption_right = Profectio di Marcus Aurelius on horseback right, holding spear, preceded by soldier holding spear and shield; three soldiers follow emperor.

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| footer = 29 mm, 25.04 g, coined in 170

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| header = Septimius Severus: denariusRoman Imperial Coinage, Septimius Severus, IVa, 494; BMC 466. Cohen 580.

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| caption_left = L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP VIII, Laureate head of Septimius Severus to right (Paludamentum)

| caption_right = PROFECTIO AUG, Septimius Severus riding horse starts for limes Orientis, holding transverse spear.

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| footer = 2.85 g, coined in 197.

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| caption_left = IMP SEV ALEXANDER AVG, laureate head to right, draped bust;

| caption_right = PROFECTIO AVGVSTI, Alexander Severus on horse, holding transverse spear, preceded by Victoria, with a crown and palm.

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The profectio ("setting forth") was the ceremonial departure of a consul in his guise as a general in Republican Rome,Andrew Feldherr, Spectacle and Society in Livy's History (University of California Press, 1998), pp. 9–10. and of an emperor during the Imperial era.Erika Manders, Coining Images of Power: Patterns in the Representation of Roman Emperors on Imperial Coinage, A.D. 193–282 (Brill, 2012), p. 71. It was a conventional scene for relief sculpture and imperial coinage.Manders, Coining Images of Power, p. 70–76. The return was the reditusGeoffrey S. Sumi, Ceremony and Power: Performing Politics in Rome Between Republic and Empire (University of Michigan Press, 2005), p. 35. and the ceremonial reentry the adventus.Manders, Coining Images of Power, p. 70.

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External links

[http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth200/politics/aurelian_panels.html ARTH]

Category:Processions in ancient Rome

Category:Roman Empire sculptures

Category:Military of ancient Rome