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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Provincial| > |Roman Egypt| > RX92598
Domitian, 13 September 81 - 18 September 96 A.D., Roman Provincial Egypt
|Roman| |Egypt|, |Domitian,| |13| |September| |81| |-| |18| |September| |96| |A.D.,| |Roman| |Provincial| |Egypt|, The immortal Apis bull was kept near the Temple of Ptah in Memphis where it was adored by worshipers and kept company with its harem of cows. The Egyptians, of course, knew the individual bull would die and if the bull lived to 25 years it was ceremonially killed. When the Apis bull died, a state of mourning was decreed, the bull's body was mummified and buried in granite sarcophagus. At the same time the priests went out to find the reincarnated Apis, a young black bull with a white triangle on its forehead and a scarab shaped lump under its tongue. Other clues of Apis' identity might include a white mark on its back in the shape of wings, a white crescent on its side, or a forked separation of the hairs at the end of its tail.
RX92598. Bronze diobol, RPC Online II 2541 (8 spec.); Geissen 354; Dattari 578; Milne 490a; Kampmann 24.72; Emmett 279/7 (R3); BMC Alexandria -, VF, well centered, porosity, corrosion (possibly active), edge cracks, Alexandria mint, weight 6.426g, maximum diameter 23.8mm, die axis 0o, 28 Aug 87 - 27 Aug 88 A.D.; obverse AYT KAIΣAP ΔOMITIANOΣ ΣEB ΓEPM, laureate or wreathed head right; reverse Apis bull standing right, solar disc between horns, bell hung on neck, altar before, L Z (year 7) above; from the Errett Bishop Collection; only one specimen on Coin Archives in the last two decades; very rare; SOLD










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CAESARAVGFDOMITIANVS
CAESARAVGFDOMITIANVSCOSII
CAESARAVGFDOMITIANVSCOSIII
CAESARAVGFDOMITIANVSCOSIIII
CAESARAVGFDOMITIANVSCOSV
CAESARAVGFDOMITIANVSCOSVI
CAESARAVGFDOMITIANVSCOSVII
CAESARDIVIAVGVESPFDOMITIANVSCOSVII
CAESARDIVIFDOMITIANVSCOSVII
CAESAVGFDOMITCOSII
CAESAVGFDOMITCOSIII
CAESAVGFDOMITIANCOSII
CAESDIVIAVGVESP
CAESDIVIFDOMITIANVSCOSVII
CAESDIVIVESPFDOMITIANCOSVII
DOMITIANVSAVGGERM
DOMITIANVSAVGGERMANICVS
DOMITIANVSAVGVSTVS
DOMITIANVSCAESARAVGF
IMPCAESARDOMITIANVSAVG
IMPCAESDIVIVESPFDOMITIANAVG
IMPCAESDIVIVESPFDOMITIANAVGPM
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMANPMTRPVII
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMCOSXI
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMCOSXICENSPOTPP
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMCOSXICENSPERPP
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMCOSXIICENSPERPP
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMCOSXIIICENSPERPP
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMCOSXIIIICENSPERPP
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMCOSXVCENSPERPP
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMCOSXVICENSPERPP
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMCOSXVIICENSPERPP
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMCOSVII
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPOTV
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPIIII
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPV
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPVI
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPVII
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPVIII
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPVIIICENSPERPP
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPVIIII
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPX
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPXI
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPXII
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPXIII
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPXIIII
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPXV
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPXVI
IMPCAESDOMITAVGGERMPMTRPVIIICENSPERPP
IMPCAESDOMITIANAVGGERMCOSX
IMPCAESDOMITIANAVGGERMCOSXI
IMPCAESDOMITIANAVGGERMANIC
IMPCAESDOMITIANAVGGERMANICVS
IMPCAESDOMITIANAVGGERMV
IMPCAESDOMITIANAVGPMCOSVII
IMPCAESDOMITIANAVGPMCOSVIII
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IMPCAESDOMITIANVSAVGGERMANICVS
IMPCAESDOMITIANVSAVGPM
IMPCAESDOMITIANVSAVGPONT
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IMPDOMITAVGGERMCOSXI
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IMPDOMITIANCAESDIVIVESPFAVGPMTRPPPCOSVIII
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