A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 24
ho wrote in the time of Nero, noteswith a sneer that it was one of the privileges of the meanest Romancitizen to exchange his ticket for a portion of musty flour. Thispolicy of the Emperors is illustrated by the inscribed corn-ticket(tessera frumentaria) shown in this Case (No. 20 ; fig. 10). It… … Fig. 10.—Bronze Corn-Ticket (No. 20). 1:1. LXL, i.e. the sixty-first monthly corn distribution, dating doubtless from the accession of Antoninus. The letters were originallyinlaid with silver, as is shown by the remains of that metal in thenumerals. The sepulchral inscription mentioned on p. 221…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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