Cistophorus from Pergamum Artist: Unknown
Mint: Pergamum (Mysia)
Magistrate: C. Claudius Pulcher
Magistrate: Machaon

55–53 B.C.

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

11.86 g, 12:00, 28 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001

Accession Number

2001.87.218

Geography

Made in Pergamum, Mysia

Culture

Roman

Period

1st century B.C.

Classification

Numismatics

Disclaimer

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Cista mystica from which a snake emerges, the whole surrounded by an ivy wreath.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: Between facing serpents, a stylized bow-case with an aplustre-like decoration. To l., PER in monogram [Gk.]; to r., thyrsus; C PVLCHER / PROCOS; below, MACHAON [Gk.]
Provenance
Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1944–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: McMullen Museum of Art, 2014), 249, plate 19
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

cistophori, coins, money

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