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Carthage

Definition
The Roman personification of the city of Carthage in Africa.
Type
Deity, Concept

Cilicia

Definition
The Roman personification of the region and province of Cilicia.
Type
Deity, Concept

Constantia

Definition
Constantia is the Roman personification of perserverance.
Type
Deity, Concept

Dionysus

Definition
Dionysus or Dionysos is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity and theatre in ancient Greek religion and myth.
Type
Deity, Concept

Euterpe

Definition
Euterpe was one of the Muses in Greek mythology, presiding over music.
Type
Deity, Concept

Danuvius

Definition
Danuvius is the Roman/Celtic personification of the Danube River.
Type
Deity, Concept

Euphrates

Definition
The personification of the Euphrates River of Mesopotamia.
Type
Deity, Concept

Diana Lucifera

Definition
Diana Lucifera is an epithet pertaining to "light-bringer," corresponding to the light of the moon.
Type
Deity, Concept

Dacia

Definition
The Roman personification of the region and province of Dacia.
Type
Deity, Concept

Dea Caelestis

Definition
Dea Caelestis is the Romanized Tanit, the chief Punic goddess.
Type
Deity, Concept

Feronia

Definition
In ancient Roman religion, Feronia was a goddess associated with wildlife, fertility, health, and abundance. As the goddess who granted freedom to slaves or civil rights to the most humble part of society, she was especially honored among plebeians and freedmen.
Type
Deity, Concept

Fides

Definition
Fides was the goddess of trust and good faith (bona fides) in Roman religion.
Type
Deity, Concept

Francia

Definition
Francia is the personfication of the "Franks," or Germanic tribes settled along the northern Rhine during the Roman imperial period.
Type
Deity, Concept

Gallia

Definition
Gallia is the personification of the historical region of Gaul or the Roman province of Gallia.
Type
Deity, Concept

Fortuna Victrix

Definition
Fortuna Victrix is an aspect of Fortuna pertaining to luck in military battle.
Type
Deity, Concept

Fides Militum

Definition
Fides Militum is an aspect of Fides corresponding to the loyalty of the military.
Type
Deity, Concept

Fortuna Felix

Definition
Fortuna Felix is an aspect of Fortuna pertaining to "happy luck."
Type
Deity, Concept

Hercules

Definition
Hercules is a Roman hero and god. He was the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Zeus (Roman equivalent Jupiter) and the mortal Alcmene. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
Type
Deity, Concept

Harpocrates

Definition
Harpocrates was the god of silence, secrets and confidentiality in the Hellenistic religion developed in Ptolemaic Alexandria (and also an embodiment of hope, according to Plutarch).
Type
Deity, Concept

Genius

Definition
In Roman religion, the genius is the individual instance of a general divine nature that is present in every individual person, place, or thing.
Type
Deity, Concept

Genius of the Roman People

Definition
A Roman cult dedicated to the Genius of the Roman (genio populi Romani) people was established by Vespasian.
Type
Deity, Concept

Genius of the Roman Senate

Definition
The personification of the Genius of the Roman Senate, usually personified as a bearded, elderly man.
Type
Deity, Concept

Germania

Definition
The Roman personification of the region and province of Germania.
Type
Deity, Concept

Genius of Lugdunum

Definition
An aspect of the Genius pertaining to the Roman city of Lugdunum.
Type
Deity, Concept

Honos

Definition
Honos was the Roman god personifying honor. He was closely associated with Virtus, the goddess of manliness, or bravery, and the two are frequently depicted together.
Type
Deity, Concept

Isis Pharia

Definition
Isis Pharia or Isis Pelagia (Isis of the Sea) is an aspect of Isis pertaining to seas and harbors, and good fortune in sea travel. Isis Pharia refers to the island of Pharos on which the Lighthouse of Alexandria was located.
Type
Deity, Concept

Janus Quadrifrons

Definition
Janus Quadrifrons is an aspect of Janus that faces four rather than two directions.
Type
Deity, Concept

Hispania

Definition
The personification of the historical region and Roman province of Hispania.
Type
Deity, Concept

Hilaritas

Definition
Hilaritas is the Roman personification of joy, commonly represented as a matron with a long branch of foliage in her right hand.
Type
Deity, Concept

Italia

Definition
The Roman personification of the peninsula of Italy.
Type
Deity, Concept

Indulgentia

Definition
Indulgentia is a personification of indulgence, clemency, pardon.
Type
Deity, Concept

Jucunditas

Definition
Jucunditas is the Roman personification of gaiety.
Type
Deity, Concept

Liberalitas

Definition
In ancient Roman culture, liberalitas was the virtue of giving freely (from liber, "free"), hence generosity. On coins, a political leader of the Roman Republic or an emperor of the Imperial era might be depicted as displaying largess to the Roman people, with liberalitas embodied as a goddess at his side.
Type
Deity, Concept

Liber

Definition
In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Liber, also known as Liber Pater ("the free Father"), was a god of viticulture and wine, fertility and freedom.
Type
Deity, Concept

Laetitia

Definition
Laetitia, deriving from the root word lætitia, æ, f. (latin), meaning "happy", "glad", "jubilation" "prosperous", or "abounding", was a minor Roman goddess of fertility.
Type
Deity, Concept

Jupiter Labranda

Definition
Jupiter Labranda or Labraundeus is an epithet if Jupiter/Zeus corresponding to a temple at Labranda, in Caria. On coins, he is depicting holding a double axe and a spear.
Type
Deity, Concept

Jupiter Carius

Definition
Jupiter Carius (or Karios) is an epithet of Jupiter pertaining to a temple in Caria. It is an unusual form of Jupiter (or Zeus), with a spear and shield.
Type
Deity, Concept

Judea

Definition
Judea is the Roman personification of the region and province of Judaea.
Type
Deity, Concept

Juno Sospita

Definition
An epithet of Juno meaning "savior."
Type
Deity, Concept

Libertas

Definition
Libertas is the Roman goddess and personification of liberty. She became a politicised figure in the Late Republic, featured on coins supporting the populares faction, and later those of the assassins of Julius Caesar.
Type
Deity, Concept

Mauretania

Definition
The Roman personification of the region and province of Mauretania in North Africa.
Type
Deity, Concept

Macedonia

Definition
The Roman personification of the region and province of Macedonia.
Type
Deity, Concept

Lupa

Definition
Lupa, or she-wolf, is the mythological wolf that raised Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome.
Type
Deity, Concept

Lunus

Definition
A masculine variant of Luna.
Type
Deity, Concept

Odysseus

Definition
Odysseus, also known by the Latin variant Ulysses, is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.
Type
Deity, Concept

Nemesis

Definition
In ancient Greek religion, Nemesis, also called Rhamnousia or Rhamnusia, is the goddess who enacts retribution against those who succumb to hubris, arrogance before the gods.
Type
Deity, Concept

Nilus

Definition
Nilus, or the Nile, is the personification of the Nile River in Egypt.
Type
Deity, Concept

Nicomedia

Definition
The Roman personification of the city of Nicomedia in Bithynia.
Type
Deity, Concept

Noricum

Definition
The Roman personification of the region and province of Noricum.
Type
Deity, Concept

Moesia

Definition
The Roman personification of the region and province of Moesia.
Type
Deity, Concept

Nobilitas

Definition
The Roman personification of nobility.
Type
Deity, Concept

Ops

Definition
In ancient Roman religion, Ops or Opis (Latin: "Plenty") was a fertility deity and earth goddess of Sabine origin. Her equivalent in Greek mythology was Rhea.
Type
Deity, Concept

Pax

Definition
Pax, was the Roman goddess of peace derived and adopted from the ancient Greek equivalent Eirene.
Type
Deity, Concept

Orontes

Definition
Personification of the River Orontes, which flows through Antioch. Orontes is often depicted as a male swimmer at the feet of Tyche of Antioch.
Type
Deity, Concept

Pannonia

Definition
The Roman personification of the region and province of Pannonia.
Type
Deity, Concept

Parthia

Definition
The Roman personification of the Parthian Empire.
Type
Deity, Concept

Oriens

Definition
Oriens, or The Orient, is the Roman personfication of the East, sometimes depicted as a woman wearing a mural crown.
Type
Deity, Concept

Patientia

Definition
The Roman personification of patience and endurance.
Type
Deity, Concept

Orbis

Definition
Orbis is the Roman personification of the world.
Type
Deity, Concept

Perseus

Definition
In Greek mythology, Perseus is the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty. He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. He beheaded the Gorgon Medusa for Polydectes and saved Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus.
Type
Deity, Concept

Pegasus

Definition
Pegasus is one of the best known creatures in Greek mythology. He is a winged divine stallion usually depicted as pure white in color. He was sired by Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa.
Type
Deity, Concept

Providentia

Definition
In ancient Roman religion, Providentia is a divine personification of the ability to foresee and make provision. She was among the embodiments of virtues that were part of the Imperial cult of ancient Rome.
Type
Deity, Concept

Pollux

Definition
Pollux is the twin brother of Castor. See Dioscuri for further reading.
Type
Deity, Concept

Phrygia

Definition
The Roman personification of the region and province of Phrygia.
Type
Deity, Concept

Quirinus

Definition
In Roman mythology and religion, Quirinus is an early god of the Roman state
Type
Deity, Concept

Roma

Definition
In ancient Roman religion, Roma was a female deity who personified the city of Rome and more broadly, the Roman state. She embodied and idealised certain of Rome's ideas about itself, its advancement and its eventual domination of its neighbours.
Type
Deity, Concept

Pudicitia

Definition
Pudicitia ("modesty" or "sexual virtue") was a central concept in ancient Roman sexual ethics, later personified in art.
Type
Deity, Concept

Res Publica

Definition
Res Publica is the personfication of the Roman state. It appears mainly on some types of Constantine in conjunction with Pax and Victory.
Type
Deity, Concept

Rhine

Definition
The Roman personification of the Rhine River.
Type
Deity, Concept

Quies

Definition
Quies is the Roman personification of tranquility.
Type
Deity, Concept

Romulus

Definition
Romulus is the legendary founder of Rome and its first king, ruling (according to tradition) from 753 - 716 B.C. Romulus appears on coinage from the Roman Republic to the modern period.
Type
Person, Concept

Securitas

Definition
In Roman mythology, Securitas was the goddess of security and stability, especially the security of the Roman Empire. On coinage Securitas was usually depicted leaning on a column.
Type
Deity, Concept

Savus

Definition
Savus is the personification of a river near Siscia (modern Sava River), the longest tributary of the Danube.
Type
Deity, Concept

Sarmatia

Definition
The Roman personification of the region and people of Sarmatia, on the Pontic steppe.
Type
Deity, Concept

Saeculum Frugiferum

Definition
Saeculum Frugiferum is the embodiment of a "fruitful era."
Type
Deity, Concept

Sol Invictus

Definition
Sol Invictus, sometimes known as Helios, was long considered to be the official sun god of the later Roman Empire. In the traditional view, Sol Invictus was the second of two entirely different sun gods in Rome. The first of these, Sol Indiges, or Sol, was an early Roman deity of minor importance whose cult had petered out by the first century AD. Sol Invictus, on the other hand, was a Syrian sun god whose cult was first promoted in Rome under Elagabalus, without success. Some fifty years later, on 25 December AD 274, the Roman emperor Aurelian did succeed to establish the cult of Sol Invictus as an official religion, alongside the traditional Roman cults.
Type
Deity, Concept

Sothis

Definition
Sopdet is the ancient Egyptian name of the star Sirius and its personification as an Egyptian goddess. Known to the Greeks as Sothis, she was conflated with Isis as a goddess and Anubis as a god.
Type
Deity, Concept

Sicilia

Definition
The personification of the island of Sicily, identifiable by a triskeles headress.
Type
Deity, Concept

Siscia

Definition
The Roman personification of the city of Siscia.
Type
Deity, Concept

Tutela

Definition
Tutela was the ancient Roman concept of "guardianship", conceived of as a goddess in the Imperial period, and from the earliest period as a functional role that various tutelary deities might play, particularly Juno. Tutela had particular applications in Roman law.
Type
Deity, Concept

Tigris

Definition
The Roman personification of the Mesopotamian river, the Tigris.
Type
Deity, Concept

Thrace

Definition
The Roman personification of the region of Thrace.
Type
Deity, Concept

Vejovis

Definition
Vejovis or Vejove was a Roman god of Etruscan origins. Vejovis was portrayed as a young man, holding a bunch of arrows, pilum, (or lightning bolts) in his hand, and accompanied by a goat. Romans believed that Vejovis was one of the first gods to be born. He was a god of healing, and became associated with the Greek Asclepius.
Type
Deity, Concept

Valeria Luperca

Definition
A minor legendary figure in Rome, who healed the sick during an epidemic following the sacrifice of a bull.
Type
Deity, Concept

Tyche of Antioch

Definition
An aspect of Tyche pertaining to the city of Antioch, often shown seated with a mural crown. Often, the personification of Orontes swims at her feet.
Type
Deity, Concept

Venus Aphrodisias

Definition
An epithet corresponding to the temple of Venus (Aphrodite) at Aphrodisas.
Type
Deity, Concept

Venus Felix

Definition
Venus Felix ("Lucky Venus"), probably a traditional epithet, combining aspects of Venus and Fortuna, goddess of both good and bad fortune and personification of luck, whose iconography includes the rudder of a ship.
Type
Deity, Concept

Utilitas

Definition
The Roman personification of utility.
Type
Deity, Concept

Bernisches Historisches Museum

Definition
The Bernisches Historisches Museum (BHM) is the history museum of Bern, Switzerland. The oldest of the approximately 80,000 objects date back to the 6th century BC, the most recent represent the present. The holdings were founded by the Stadtbibliothek Bern and found their way to the BHM in 1898. They contain the world's most important collection of Bernese coins and medals as well as coin and medal dies. It is also one of the most important Swiss collections of Swiss coins as well as of ancient coins (Greek and Roman). It also includes an internationally important and nationally unique collection of Oriental coins.
Type
Collection, Concept

Swiss National Museum

Definition
The Coin Cabinet of the Swiss National Museum houses the largest numismatic collection in Switzerland. The focus lies on Celtic, medieval and modern coins of Switzerland. However, the collection also includes ancient Greek and Roman coins, as well as medieval and modern coins from all over the world.
Type
Collection, Concept

Dacia

Definition
Dacia was the land inhabited by the Dacians. The Greeks referred to them as the Getae (east of Dacia) and the Romans called them Daci. Dacia was bounded in the south approximately by the Danubius river (Danube).
Type
Region, Concept

Venus Genetrix

Definition
The Venus Genetrix is a sculptural type which shows the Roman goddess Venus in her aspect of Genetrix ("foundress of the family"), as she was honoured by the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Rome, which claimed her as their ancestor.
Type
Deity, Concept

Via Trajana

Definition
The personification of the Via Trajana or Traiana, which was an ancient Roman road. It was built by the emperor Trajan as an extension of the Via Appia from Beneventum. It is often shown holding a wheel.
Type
Deity, Concept

Londinium

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Londinium in Britannia.
Type
Mint, Concept

Gallo-Roman Museum Tongeren

Definition
The Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren holds a collection of archaeological finds from northeastern Belgium, dating from prehistoric, Roman and early medieval times (up to 900 AD). Part of this collection are more than 7000 coins, mainly Roman coins found in Tongeren (the Roman town of Atuatuca Tungrorum) and to a lesser extent Celtic, Roman, Merovingian and Carolingian coins from the region.
Type
Collection, Concept

Plaquette

Definition
A plaquette is a small relief object of art, similiar to a medal, but in contrast to a medal only decorated on one side only. It often is of square or angular shape.
Type
Object Type, Concept

Epidamnus

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Epidamnus, later Dyrrhachium in Illyricum.
Type
Mint, Concept

Pagasae

Definition
The mint at theancient of Pagasae in Thessaly
Type
Mint, Concept

Medieval German Numismatics

Definition
The study of the coins, other numismatic items and numismatic history of Medieval Germany.
Type
Field of Numismatics, Concept

The IRIS Typology

Definition
The skeleton typology for Greek coinage produced as part of the ARCH project.
Type
Type Series, Concept
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