Catalogue information

LastDodo number
5021359
Area
Coins
Title
Roman Empire, AE24, 222-235 AD, Severus Alexander, Deultum, Thrace
Face value
Year
222
Variety / overstrike
Type
Designer
Series
Material
Weight
8.88
Diameter
24.44
Thickness
Shape
Obverse
IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Reverse
COL FL PA C DEVLT. Artemis (Diana) advancing right, holding bow and drawing arrow from quiver; at feet, hound advancing right
Edge
Privy mark
Mint mark
Number produced
Krause and Mishler number
Catalogue number
Varbanov 2265
Details

Artemis is depicted here in the same pose as the Diana of Versailles, a slightly larger than life-size Roman marble statue from the 1st or 2nd century AD. Copying of the lost Greek bronze original is attributed to Leochares, (c. 325 BC). The sculpture has a deer on her side instead of a dog. The sculpture may have come from a shrine in Nemi or possibly from Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli. In 1556 it was given by Pope Paul IV to Henry II of France, a subtle allusion to the king's mistress, Diane de Poitiers. It is now in the Musee du Louvre, Paris.

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