Aurora
    | Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. AURORA. - he daughter of Titan, and harbinger of the Sun, appears as a winged figure, between four horses, whose reins she holds, on a coin of L. Plancus. - See Plautia gens. There is also another image of "the rosy fingered" demi-goddess, on a brass medallion of Trajan (below). The obverse bears the head of Trajan, and the legend DIVO NERVAE TRAIANO AVG. The reverse legend is S P Q R DIVO TRAIANO PARTHICO. The type represents Aurora holding in her right hand a lighted torch, and in her left a palm branch. She stands in a chariot drawn conjointly by a lion and a wild boar. Hercules precedes, holding a club on his right shoulder. - See Tristan, who gives an engraving of this reverse in T. i. p. 404 of his Commentaires, of which an accurate copy is furnished in the foregoing cut. |
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Aurora
| Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. AURORA. - he daughter of Titan, and harbinger of the Sun, appears as a winged figure, between four horses, whose reins she holds, on a coin of L. Plancus. - See Plautia gens. There is also another image of "the rosy fingered" demi-goddess, on a brass medallion of Trajan (below). The obverse bears the head of Trajan, and the legend DIVO NERVAE TRAIANO AVG. The reverse legend is S P Q R DIVO TRAIANO PARTHICO. The type represents Aurora holding in her right hand a lighted torch, and in her left a palm branch. She stands in a chariot drawn conjointly by a lion and a wild boar. Hercules precedes, holding a club on his right shoulder. - See Tristan, who gives an engraving of this reverse in T. i. p. 404 of his Commentaires, of which an accurate copy is furnished in the foregoing cut. |
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