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• Title:
  Personification of Aeternitas on Roman coins propagating the idea of emperor's eternity
• Creator:
  Balbuza, Katarzyna
• Description:
  The paper analyzes the typology of imagery of Aeternitas in the coinage (from Vespasian to the Tetrarchy) propagating the concept of emperor’s eternity. The iconography of Aeternitas is not homogenous, being characterised by an abundance and diversity of motifs and representations. One thing that would not change, a common denominator of sorts, was the figure of a woman in a long dress. Her attributes, however, did fluctuate and depending on their kind symbolised either cosmic eternity or renewable time (phoenix). Aeternitas personified by a woman in long dress, shown in contrapposto, holding a radiant sun and moon was introduced on the reverses of coins in the Flavian period and continued to appear until Hadrian. During that time, the astral attributes would be exchanged for other devices, but although these insignia changed over time, the figure in a long tunic remained, as a permanent  and originally Roman element in the iconography of female personifications of the Roman Empire. 
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2013 Katarzyna Balbuza
• Date:
  2013.01.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Gniezno European Studies; No. 8 (2013); 7-27;
  Studia Europaea Gnesnensia; Nr 8 (2013); 7-27;
  2720-7145;
  2082-5951
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/seg/article/view/2465/2448
• Subject:
  iconography;
  aeternitas augusti;
  Roman numismatics;
  ideology
• Identifier: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/seg/article/view/2465
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text