RT Article
T1 The Coins of Philip the Tetrarch and the Imperial Cult: A View from Paneas on the Fall of Sejanus
JF Journal for the study of Judaism
VO 52
IS 2
SP 197
OP 227
A1 Giambrone, Anthony 1977-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1757531106
AB Abstract Philip the Tetrarch, son of Herod the Great, was the first Jewish ruler to depict human images on his coins. This innovation of adopting numismatic portraiture must be understood in inseparable conjunction with Philip’s aggressive cultivation of the imperial cult at Paneas. The present article, accordingly, offers the first focused study of how the development of iconography on his issues corresponds to specific political events of cultic concern. In this connection, a new interpretation is suggested for Philip’s unique undated minting, deeply implicated in the imperial drama transpiring around the year 31 CE . The tetrarch’s savvy manipulation of images, when seen against this broad background, reveals his unwavering and intensifying allegiance to the domus Augusta : to the princeps in the form of a clipeus virtutis devotion and to Livia under the aspect of Demeter.
K1 Numismatics
K1 imperial cult
K1 Sejanus
K1 Livia
K1 Augustus
K1 Tiberius
K1 Philip the tetrarch
DO 10.1163/15700631-BJA10031