525870359 by Unknown

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Language: eng
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It is chiefly under the Severi that we find Indulgentia largely represented; and at this time the old type was almost completely abandoned to give place to two new ones. Indulgentia being referred specifically to the imperial condonations granted in Italy or Africa. In the first case she is represented by the figure of Italy seated upon a globe—in the second—as a precise signification of the remission of the impost to provide the cost of the great aqueduct from the Baghouan Mountains to Carthage which had burdened the Carthagenians from the time of Hadrian—by the goddess Cybele seated upon the back of a lion running. And, as a better illustration of the deed, some rocks are seen at the side from which issues a fountain.

INDVLGENTIA, however, is not among the legends which are shewn abundantly on the imperial coinage. I should incline, as was said above, to understand her in general as meaning a condonation of imposts and she may be interpreted in an exceptional sense as a remitting of penalties (although the fiscal meaning may also very well occur) upon the coins of Faustina junior and Salonina; I do not include those of Julia Domna, she being a woman occupying herself seriously with all kinds of state affairs; and indeed her coins with the legend INDVLGENTIA bear the same representation of Cybele upon the lion, as those of her husband Septimius Severus.

Iucunditas.

IVCVNDITATI AVG.

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