Coniuratio, Die Schwurszene auf den Münzen und Gemmen der römischen Republik

Abstract

The study sets out to reinterpret the well known oath scene on the coins and gems of the Roman Republic and to connect the oath depicted with the coniuratio, a form of the Roman levy. A first section separates the regular levy from the irregular, a second considers the rite of the oath at a coniuratio, a third describes the oath scenes on the pieces themselves, and a fourth links the act depicted with the tumultuary levy. Servius names three forms of military service: that based on a regular levy, in which the soldiers swore the sacramentum to the consul one by one, and two irregular ones, coniuratio and evocatio; the first was the gathering of every able bodied man in the utmost emergency, who because of the immediate danger swore not singly but as a mass.

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Suggested citation

Bleicken, Jochen: Coniuratio, Die Schwurszene auf den Münzen und Gemmen der römischen Republik. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 13 (1963), pp. 51–70, Tf.7-8.

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