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Show Empty Categories Shop Search Shopping Cart My FORVMContact Us About Forum Shopping at Forum Our Guarantee Payment Options Shipping Options & Fees Privacy & Security Forum Staff Selling Your Coins Identifying Your Coin FAQs zoom.asp  View CategoriesHome > Catalog > |Antiquities| > |Antiquities by Type| > |Seals| > AS83610Roman, Lead Conical Bulla Seal, Early 4th Century A.D. The ancients did not all agree on the attributes of Serapis. A passage in Tacitus affirms that many recognized in this god, Aesculapius, imputing healing to his intervention; some thought him identical with Osiris, the oldest deity of the Egyptians; others regarded him as Jupiter, possessing universal power; but by most he was believed to be the same as Pluto, the "gloomy" Dis Pater of the infernal regions. The general impression of the ancients seems to have been that by Serapis, was to be understood the beginning and foundation of things. Julian II consulted the oracle of Apollo for the purpose of learning whether Pluto and Serapis were different gods; and he received for an answer that Jupiter-Serapis and Pluto were one and the same divinity.
AS83610. Lead seal, aEF, weight 8.022g, maximum diameter 17.4mm, early 4th century A.D.; obverse diademed, draped, bearded, bust of Serapis right, kalathos(?) on head; reverse conical back, pierced for cord; SOLD
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