Ceremonial departure of consul as general in Republican Rome
Traianus : aureus [ 1]
IMP TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P , Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trajan to 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.
7,35 g, coined in 114/115.
The profectio ("setting forth") was the ceremonial departure of a consul in his guise as a general in Republican Rome ,[ 5] and of an emperor during the Imperial era .[ 6] It was a conventional scene for relief sculpture and imperial coinage.[ 7] The return was the reditus [ 8] and the ceremonial reentry the adventus .[ 9]
^ Roman Imperial Coinage , Traianus , II, 297; BMC 512 var. Calicó 986a. Cohen 40 var. Hill 690.
^ Roman Imperial Coinage , Marcus Aurelius , III 977; MIR 18, 191-6/30; Cohen 502.
^ Roman Imperial Coinage , Septimius Severus , IVa, 494; BMC 466. Cohen 580.
^ Roman Imperial Coinage , Alexander Severus , IVb, 596; Cohen, 492.
^ Andrew Feldherr, Spectacle and Society in Livy's History (University of California Press, 1998), pp. 9–10.
^ Erika Manders, Coining Images of Power: Patterns in the Representation of Roman Emperors on Imperial Coinage, A.D. 193–282 (Brill, 2012), p. 71.
^ Manders, Coining Images of Power, p. 70–76.
^ Geoffrey S. Sumi, Ceremony and Power: Performing Politics in Rome Between Republic and Empire (University of Michigan Press, 2005), p. 35.
^ Manders, Coining Images of Power, p. 70.