Serapis, Isis en forma de serpiente y el Genius Loci

(Rijksmuseum van oudheden, Leiden)

-Antoninus Pius -AE Drachm, Alexandria. R: Agathodaemon (serpent) with head of Serapis--

Leptis Magna Archaeological Museum

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Isis y Serapir en forma de serpientes enlazadas

Coin Type: Bronze obol of Domitian, Caesar 69-79 CE, Augustus 81-96 CE.
Mint and Date: Alexandria, 90-91 CE.
Size and Weight: 18mm, 3.2g
Obverse: (AVT) KAIΣAP ΔOMITIAN(OΣ) ΓEPM
Laureate head right.
Reverse: Uraeus with Demeter head, right (RPC) or Isis-Thermouthis right (Cologne catalogue).
Field Marks: L I in right field (Regnal year 10)
Provenance: lipzo (eBay), May 2007
Ref: Milne —; RPC 2593

Votive group, with the depiction of a snake, Aesculapius, and two goddesses on a couch (perhaps Ceres and Proserpina). It may be related to a lectisternium, a meal at which the gods were thought to be present, lying on a lectus. Found in the rooms to the south of the palaestra of the Terme del Foro (I,XII,6). Museo Ostiense.

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Ostia, Genius Loci——

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Piccolo Mercato (I,VIII,1) - Relief of snake (Genius Loci) in portico of courtyard.

The courtyard. The relief is to the left, below modern protection.

Detail of the relief.

A marble relief of two snakes was found somewhere in the same building (Ostia neg. C256).-

Painting of a Genius and two snakes, place of discovery unknown (not discussed in the book; ICCD E40800).

The painting.