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Largitio dish of the Emperor Licinius, Late Roman, 317 AD. A silver anniversary dish with a Latin inscription which reads 'LICINI AVGVSTE SEMPER VINCAS' ('Licinius Augustus, may you always be victorious'). In the centre a second text says 'As ten, so twenty'; the dish was made on the tenth anniversary of Licinius's reign over the eastern half of the Roman Empire in 317; he marked the occasion by taking vows for a second ten years and also by issuing commemorative tokens like this dish. These were known as largitio, (Latin for largesse or the liberal bestowal of gifts) but also bribery! This dish is one of a group of identical dishes that were found at ancient Naissus, (modern Nis in Serbia), in 1901; the dish was actually made at the imperial workshops there. Very few dishes have stamps indicating their origins and, as silver objects were widely traded, very few have been found in the same city in which they were made.
M AND ME, 1969,9-4,1

Location British Museum/London/Great Britain

Unique Identifier ART201030

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 1588px × 1600px

Photo Credit Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY

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