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Simpulum, or Simpuvium, a small vessel or ladle with a long handle, used at sacrifices to make libations, and to taste the wines and other liquors which were poured on the head of the victims. It is the sign of priesthood, and one of the insignia of the college of pontiffs. It appears on a coin of Patræ, struck under Augustus. It is also placed before the head of Vesta, as a mark of that goddess, on a coin of the Domitia family, and is seen in the hand of a vestal on coins of the Claudia, family.—A togated and stolated man holds a simpulum in his hand on a coin of Antonio Drusi, sen.—This vase is united with the asper-gillum, securis, apex, patera, secespita. præferi-culum, lituus, that is to say, with one or other of these sacrificial and augural instruments, on coins of Julius Cæsar, M. Antony, Lepidus, Augustus, Caligula, Vespasian, Nerva, Antoninus, M. Aurelius, Caracalla, Geta, Philip jun., Volusianus, Saloninus, Valerianus jun., as well as on mauy consular and colonial medals.


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Simpulum



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Simpulum, or Simpuvium, a small vessel or ladle with a long handle, used at sacrifices to make libations, and to taste the wines and other liquors which were poured on the head of the victims. It is the sign of priesthood, and one of the insignia of the college of pontiffs. It appears on a coin of Patræ, struck under Augustus. It is also placed before the head of Vesta, as a mark of that goddess, on a coin of the Domitia family, and is seen in the hand of a vestal on coins of the Claudia, family.—A togated and stolated man holds a simpulum in his hand on a coin of Antonio Drusi, sen.—This vase is united with the asper-gillum, securis, apex, patera, secespita. præferi-culum, lituus, that is to say, with one or other of these sacrificial and augural instruments, on coins of Julius Cæsar, M. Antony, Lepidus, Augustus, Caligula, Vespasian, Nerva, Antoninus, M. Aurelius, Caracalla, Geta, Philip jun., Volusianus, Saloninus, Valerianus jun., as well as on mauy consular and colonial medals.


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