A new portrait type for Faustina the Younger. Issue 2 (December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Beckmann, Martin
• Is Part Of: Journal of Roman archaeology. Volume 34:Issue 2(2021)
• Page Start: 734
• Page End: 741
• Publication Date: 2021-12
• Subjects: Medallions -- portraiture -- Antoninus Pius -- Marcus Aurelius -- Faustina the Younger; Europe -- Antiquities, Roman -- Periodicals; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Europe -- Periodicals; Rome -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Fouilles (Archéologie) -- Europe -- Périodiques; Europe -- Antiquités romaines -- Périodiques; Rome -- Antiquités -- Périodiques; Archeologie; Romeinse oudheid; Antiquities; Classical antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology); Europe; Rome (Empire); Periodicals; Electronic journals; 930
• DOI: 10.1017/S104775942100009X
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1047-7594

Abstract

Abstract: This note identifies a new portrait type of Faustina the Younger, which appears on medallions and on a single aureus. On medallions the type appears in a single, closely die-linked group, indicating a synchronous emission. I suggest that this emission should be placed in a prominent gap in the (dated) medallion issues of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, which in turn dates this newly identified portrait of Faustina to 153/4 CE.