Constantine The Tetrarchic Language and the Development of

Constantine: The Tetrarchic Language and the Development of New Symbols of Power – the Coins Filippo Carlà From the collection of the University of Mainz

Die Tetrarchie 01. 05. 305 – 25. 07. 306 Bis 01. 05. 305 SENIORES AUGUSTI Diokletian Maximian CAESARES Maximinus Daza Galerius Severus Constantius Chlorus

Nach 306 n. Chr. Sommer 305 – Juli 307 Mai 306 – Herbst Spätsommer 306 SENIORES AUGUSTI CAESARES Diokletian Maximian Galerius Constantius Chlorus Maximinus Daza Ab dem 28. 10. 306: Maxentius Severus Konstantin

Galerius und die Tetrarchie • „Galerius was likewise [wie Tiberius] reluctant to be innovative. This is clear enough from the inflexibility of his effort to retain the imperial settlement bequeated him by Diocletian“. (B. Leadbetter, Galerius and the Will of Diocletian, London. New York 2009).

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“All of the types struck on imperial coinage were undoubtedly designed to be acceptable to the princeps, for only a suicidal mint official would have produced a personification of Paranoia Caesaris. The hypothesis, however, that coinage was thus primarily a medium of flattery is problematic, particularly because there were much more immediate and less logistically complex means for sycophantic expressions, and also for the tacit assumption that the princeps personally inspected the products of all the major mints”. A. Cheung, “The Political Significance of Roman Imperial Coin Types”, in Sch. MBl 48, 1998, pp. 53 -61.

RIC VI, Londinium, 110 (307) RIC VI, Treviri, 789 (307 -308): from the collection of the University of Mainz

RIC VII, Thessalonica 48 (311)

RIC VI, Trier, 673 b

RIC VI, Londinium 85 (307)

CONCORDIA FELIX DD NN for Maximian (Londinium, 308)

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Constantine as FILIUS AUGUSTORUM: RIC VI, Thessalonica 31 b (308 -310) RIC VI, Siscia, 200 b

„Nummus“ from Antiochia „SOLI INVICTAE“ (305 -308)

Die Porphyrstatue RIC V/2, 290, n. 601 (Cyzicus, ca. 293? )

Magura © DAI

Die „tetrarchischen“ Bauphasen U. Brandl – M. Vasić (Hg. ), Roms Erbe auf dem Balkan. Spätantike Kaiservillen und Stadtanlagen in Serbien, Mainz 2007.

Das „tetrarchische“ Relief