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Denarius Featuring Juno

Denarius Featuring Juno


‎In an annual agricultural fertility ritual dedicated to Juno, Rome’s national goddess, blindfolded virgin girls fed barley cakes to a sacred snake (or “dragon”) inhabiting a cave within the temple precinct at Lanuvium near Rome. Lucius Roscius Fabatus issued this silver denarius about 70 B.C. It shows Juno in goatskin headdress and the name L. Rosci (obverse). The feeding ritual is depicted over the surname “Fabati” (reverse). Fabatus served with Julius Caesar in Gaul and negotiated with him in 49 B.C. in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent civil war.
‎Gen 27:27, Mark 12:32, 1 Cor 8:4–6, 1 Cor 10:20, Rev 12:3–17

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