Meaning of Victoriae | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“But in the middle of the ceiling he painted a circle with four Victoriae holding the papal crown and keys…”

“The motif of Victoriae supporting a votive shield, set⟳ not against a palm-tree but on a cippus or altar, is present⟳ in major triumphal sculpture shortly before its appearance on the coinage of Constantinus I (43 f, n. 10).[…]The two reverse groupings which originate on sestertii of Hadrian (BMCCRE III, pl. 79, 7), continue⟳ through the coinage of Caracalla, and show⟳ Victory floating or standing to the left or right with a standard or trophy held crosswise and extended in the hands are nothing more than the translations of similarly arranged Victoriae from the spandrels of triumphal arches to coin reverses.”

“Nike-Victoria sets up a tropaion (attaches arms, sacrifices a bull, puts on a wreath or an inscription); in Roman times two Victoriae fixing a shield to a tropaion are placed preferably in antithetical positions on the breast-plate of statuae thoracatae, Nike crowning a tropaion is found mostly on Megarian bowls, small incense-altars and victoriates, Victoria writing on the shield of a trophy is a Roman device.”

“Altar of Roma and Augustus at Lugdunum, flanked left and right by Victoriae on columns.[…]Two Victoriae supporting wreathed votive shield inscribed vot x mvl xx / victoriae d d n n avgg / ·sis· in exergue.”

“Metellus, Pompey’s subordinate in the Sertorian wars, decorated his victory celebration with mechanized Victoriae distributing golden trophies while descending from above[…]to 303-4 A.D., has as its theme two Victoriae, but behind them, two tropaea are visible.”

“The composition is well balanced, with the vertical spear serving as a dividing point⟳ and the wreath-bearing arms of the two Victoriae, the walking figure⟳ and the Victoriola on Roma’s hand, enframing the central figure⟳.[…]The type⟳ has been called Victoria, but Victoriae of this period retain⟳ their wings and are shown standing rather than enthroned.”

“Gallienus gave up this source of income, and probably tried to increase⟳ his gold supplies by copying Caracalla and constantly proclaiming Victoriae so as to be able to collect⟳ the aurum coronarium.[…]This might well be why Gallienus proclaimed his victories in countless series of coins (as in the famous “legionary coins”), the Victoriae being numbered up to Vict. VIII within a few years.[…]The minted gold also had to come⟳ from somewhere. If it came mainly from the levies of the aurum coronarium, as I presume it did, judging, at last⟳, from the eight Victoriae proclaimed around 260, the resources of the men who had to produce⟳ it were severely drained.”

“As an inscription indicates, the shield itself was supported by two Victoriae.[…]In 27 B.C. in recognition of his restoration of the res publica, the Senate placed in the curia a golden shield supported by two Victoriae, commemorating Augustus’ Virtus, Clementia, Justitia, and Pietas.”

“They speak⟳ the symbolic language of Rome, and thereby approve⟳ of their loyalty to the Roman cause, doubly emphasised in the case of Candidinius by the presence of the two Victoriae on a globe, symbols par excellence of Rome’s world dominion.”

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