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]
Traianus: aureus[1] |
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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. |
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