Bacchivs Ivdaevs: A Denarius Commemorating Pompey's Victory Over Judea

by James M. Scott

James M. Scott examines a denarius minted in Rome in 55 bce which is visually fascinating but conceptually enigmatic. On its obverse, around the head of a female figure with turreted crown, appears the name A. Plautius, who held the office of aedilis curulis in that year; on its reverse is a camel, in front of which a male figure kneels on his right leg, holding the camel's reins in his left hand and extending a branch in his right hand; the legend...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3525540450
• ISBN13: 9783525540459
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"