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| Keywords: Roman - Medallion with Roman Emperor Caracalla - Walters 593 - Reverse.jpg Together with 59 1 and 59 2 this piece was discovered in Egypt as part of a hoard that comprised about twenty similar medallions now dispersed among various museums eighteen gold ingots and six hundred gold coins issued by Roman emperors from Severus Alexander r AD 222-235 to Constantius I r AD 293-306 One of the medallions now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon bears an inscription that possibly reads Olympic games of the year 274 a date corresponding to AD 242-243 It is possible that the medallions were intended as prizes to be given out at that event Alternatively they may have been issued by Emperor Caracalla ruled 198-217 AD who is potrayed on the present one in profile bearing a shield on his shoulder decorated with the image of Nike in a racing-chariot The back depicts Caracalla's distant predecessor King Alexander of Macedon r 336-323 BC in short chiton and chlamys a cloak hunting a boar This depiction of a royal hunt was intended to emphasize the prowess that Alexander also showed in battle ca 215 243 Imperial Roman gold cm 0 6 5 7 d x diam accession number 59 3 3501 Found at Aboukir Egypt 1902 P Kytikas Cairo date of acquisition unknown by purchase Dikran Kelekian Constantinople and Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters Baltimore date of acquisition unknown by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Inscription The Search for Alexander The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans; Royal Ontario Museum Toronto; National Gallery of Art Washington; Museum of Fine Arts Boston Boston; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco San Francisco 1980-1983 Alexander the Great Treasures from an Epic Era of Hellenism Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation USA New York 2004-2005 place of origin Augsburg Germany Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman art in the Walters Art Museum Art of Roman Egypt in the Walters Art Museum Caracalla Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
