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Ubertas


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Ubertas (or on coins sometimes Uberitas) Fertility.
This goddess is described as sometimes holding "a purse," sometimes "a bunch of grapes (?)." The late Abbe Cavedoni considered the object to be a "cow's udder" (uber), as also upon certain coins of Vespasian and Titus with the legend PAX AVG. Cohen and De Witte both adopted this opinion. But Henri de Longperier has conclusively shown, from reasearches made inot the different forms of purses, that the goddess Fertility holds a purse of money, and that the object on the tripod of the coins with PAX AVG is also a purse.

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Ubertas


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Ubertas (or on coins sometimes Uberitas) Fertility.
This goddess is described as sometimes holding "a purse," sometimes "a bunch of grapes (?)." The late Abbe Cavedoni considered the object to be a "cow's udder" (uber), as also upon certain coins of Vespasian and Titus with the legend PAX AVG. Cohen and De Witte both adopted this opinion. But Henri de Longperier has conclusively shown, from reasearches made inot the different forms of purses, that the goddess Fertility holds a purse of money, and that the object on the tripod of the coins with PAX AVG is also a purse.

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