Profectio

{{Short description|Ceremonial departure of consul as general in Republican Rome}} {|align=right |{{Coin image box 1 double | header = Traianus: aureus<ref name="RIC297">Roman Imperial Coinage, ''Traianus'', II, 297; BMC 512 var. Calicó 986a. Cohen 40 var. Hill 690.</ref> | hbkg = #abcdef | image = File:Traianus Aureus 90010149.jpg | caption_left = IMP TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trajan to right. | caption_right = PROFECTIO AUGUSTI, Traianus, in military dress and hold spear, on horse walking to right; before him, soldier walking right, head turned back to left; behind, three soldiers walking right. | width = 225 | footer = 7,35 g, coined in 114/115. | position = right | margin = 0 | background = }} |- |{{Coin image box 1 double | header = Marcus Aurelius: Sestertius<ref>Roman Imperial Coinage, ''Marcus Aurelius'', III 977; MIR 18, 191-6/30; Cohen 502.</ref> | hbkg = #abcdef | image = File:Marcus Aurelius Sestertius 87115.jpg | caption_left = M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXIIII, Laureate head right. | caption_right = ''Profectio'' di Marcus Aurelius on horseback right, holding spear, preceded by soldier holding spear and shield; three soldiers follow emperor. | width = 225 | footer = 29 mm, 25.04 g, coined in 170 | position = right | margin = 0 | background = }} |- |{{Coin image box 1 double | header = Septimius Severus: denarius<ref>Roman Imperial Coinage, ''Septimius Severus'', IVa, 494; BMC 466. Cohen 580.</ref> | hbkg = #abcdef | image = File:Septimius Severus Denarius 197 90020195.jpg | caption_left = L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP VIII, Laureate head of Septimius Severus to right (''Paludamentum'') | caption_right = PROFECTIO AUG, Septimius Severus riding horse starts for ''limes Orientis'', holding transverse spear. | width = 225 | footer = 2.85 g, coined in 197. | position = right | margin = 0 | background = }} |- |{{Coin image box 1 double | header = Alexander Severus: sestertius<ref>Roman Imperial Coinage, ''Alexander Severus'', IVb, 596; Cohen, 492.</ref> | hbkg = #abcdef | image = File:RIC 0596.1.jpg | caption_left = IMP SEV ALEXANDER AVG, laureate head to right, draped bust; | caption_right = PROFECTIO AVGVSTI, Alexander Severus on horse, holding transverse spear, preceded by ''Victoria'', with a crown and palm. | width = 225 | footer = coined in 231/232. | position = right | margin = 0 | background = }} |} The '''''profectio''''' ("setting forth") was the ceremonial departure of a consul in his guise as a general in Republican Rome,<ref>Andrew Feldherr, ''Spectacle and Society in Livy's History'' (University of California Press, 1998), pp. 9–10.</ref> and of an emperor during the Imperial era.<ref>Erika Manders, ''Coining Images of Power: Patterns in the Representation of Roman Emperors on Imperial Coinage, A.D. 193–282'' (Brill, 2012), p. 71.</ref> It was a conventional scene for relief sculpture and imperial coinage.<ref>Manders, ''Coining Images of Power,'' p. 70–76.</ref> The return was the ''reditus''<ref>Geoffrey S. Sumi, ''Ceremony and Power: Performing Politics in Rome Between Republic and Empire'' (University of Michigan Press, 2005), p. 35.</ref> and the ceremonial reentry the ''adventus''.<ref>Manders, ''Coining Images of Power,'' p. 70.</ref>

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