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Medallion with Roman Emperor Caracalla
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Artist
Anonymous (Category:Roman Empire)Unknown author
Title
Medallion with Roman Emperor Caracalla
Description
English: Together with 59.1 and 59.2, this piece was discovered in Egypt as part of a hoard that comprised about twenty similar medallions (now dispersed among various museums), eighteen gold ingots, and six hundred gold coins issued by Roman emperors from Severus Alexander (r. AD 222-235) to Constantius I (r. AD 293-306). One of the medallions, now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, bears an inscription that possibly reads "Olympic games of the year 274", a date corresponding to AD 242-243. It is possible that the medallions were intended as prizes to be given out at that event. Alternatively, they may have been issued by Emperor Caracalla (ruled 198-217 AD), who is potrayed on the present one in profile, bearing a shield on his shoulder decorated with the image of Nike in a racing-chariot. The back depicts Caracalla's distant predecessor King Alexander of Macedon (r. 336-323 BC) in short chiton and chlamys (a cloak) hunting a boar. This depiction of a royal hunt was intended to emphasize the prowess that Alexander also showed in battle.
Date
between circa 215 and circa 243 (Imperial Roman)
Medium
gold
medium QS:P186,Q897
Dimensions
0.6 × 5.7 cm (0.2 × 2.2 in) (d. x diam.)
Collection
Walters Art Museum
Native name
Walters Art Museum
Location
Baltimore, United States of America
Coordinates
39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W
Established
1934
Website
thewalters.org
Authority file
: Q210081
VIAF: 128918374
ISNI: 000000040373611X
ULAN: 500279110
LCCN: no00096900
GND: 16029354-6
WorldCat
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
59.3
Place of creation
Augsburg, Germany
Object history
[Found at Aboukir, Egypt, 1902]
P. Kytikas, Cairo [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase
Dikran Kelekian, Constantinople and Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase
1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history
The Search for Alexander. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco. 1980-1983. Alexander the Great: Treasures from an Epic Era of Hellenism. Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), New York. 2004-2005.
Credit line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Inscriptions
[Inscription]
Source
Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork
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