Sabina wife of Bisexual Emperor Hadrian Silver Ancient Coin Concordia i44090

Item: i44090

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Coin of:

Sabina
– Roman Empress: 117-137 A.D. – wife of Emperor
Hadrian –

Silver Denarius 17mm (3.24 grams) Rome mint 117-135 A.D.
Reference: RIC 398a (Hadrian), BMC 895 (Hadrian), C 12 
SABINAAVGVSTAHADRIANIAVGPP – Diademed, draped bust right.
 CONCORDIAAVG – Concordia seated left, holding patera.

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Vibia

Sabina (83-136/137) was a Roman Empress, wife and second cousin, once

removed, to

Roman

Emperor
Hadrian

. She was the daughter to

Salonina Matidia

(niece of Roman Emperor

Trajan
), and

suffect consul

Lucius Vibius Sabinus

. After her father’s death in 84, Sabina along with her

half-sisters lived with their grandmother, mother and were raised in the

household of Trajan, his wife

Pompeia Plotina

and her stepfather.

She married Hadrian in 100

, at the Roman Empress

Pompeia Plotina

‘s request, for Hadrian to succeed her great uncle, in 117.

Sabina’s mother Matidia (Hadrian’s second cousin) was also fond of Hadrian and

allowed him to marry her daughter.

They had no children and had an unhappy marriage. Sabina was said to have

remarked that she had taken steps to see she never had children by Hadrian

because they would “harm the human race”. It seems that she once

aborted
a

child of theirs. Sabina was strong and independent and her beliefs in marriage

didn’t sit well with the Emperor. Sabina had an affair with

Suetonius

a historian (and Hadrian’s secretary) in the year 119. In 128, she was awarded

the title of

Augusta

. Vibia Sabina died before her husband, some time in

136 or early

137.

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 Namesake

Vibia Aurelia Sabina

(170-died before 217), daughter and youngest child of

Roman Emperor

Marcus Aurelius

and Roman Empress

Faustina the Younger

was a great, great niece to Vibia Sabina. Her name was

bestowed in honor of Sabina and her father.

In
ancient Roman religion
, Concordia is the
goddess
who embodies agreement in marriage and
society. Her
Greek equivalent
is usually regarded as
Harmonia
, with
musical harmony
a
metaphor
for an ideal of social concord or
entente
in the political
discourse
of the
Republican era
. She was thus often associated
with
Pax
(“Peace”) in representing a stable
society.As such, she is more closely related to the Greek concept of
homonoia
(likemindedness),
which was also represented by
a goddess
.

 

Concordia, standing with a
patera
and two
cornucopiae
, on the reverse of this
coin of
Aquilia Severa
.

Concordia
Augusta
was
cultivated
in the context of
Imperial cult
. Dedicatory inscriptions to her,
on behalf of emperors and members of the imperial family, were common.
In art

In art, Concordia was depicted sitting, wearing a long cloak and holding onto
a patera
(sacrificial bowl), a
cornucopia
(symbol of prosperity), or a
caduceus
(symbol of peace). She was often shown
in between two other figures, such as standing between two members of the
Imperial family shaking hands. She was associated with a pair of female deities,
such as
Pax
and
Salus
, or
Securitas
and
Fortuna
. Paired “Security and Luck” could also
be represented by
Hercules
and
Mercury
.

Temples

The oldest
Temple of Concord
, built in 367 BC by
Marcus Furius Camillus
, stood on the
Roman Forum
. Other temples and shrines in Rome
dedicated to Concordia were largely geographically related to the main temple,
and included (in date order):

• a bronze shrine (aedicula) of Concord erected by the
  aedile

  Gnaeus Flavius
  in 304 BC “in
  Graecostasis
  ” and “in area Volcani”
  (placing it on the Graecostasis, close to the main temple of Concord). He
  vowed it in the hope of reconciling the nobility who had been outraged by
  his publication of the calendar, but the senate would vote no money for its
  construction and this thus had to be financed out of the fines of condemned
  usurers.^[5]
  It must have been destroyed when the main temple was enlarged by Opimius in
  121 BC.

• one built on the
  arx
  (probably on the east side, overlooked
  the main temple of Concord below). It was probably vowed by the
  praetor

  Lucius Manlius
  in 218 BC after quelling a
  mutiny among his troops in
  Cisalpine Gaul
  ,^[6]
  with building work commencing in 217 and dedication occurring on 5 February
  216.

• a temple to Concordia Nova, marking the end
  Julius Caesar
  had brought to civil war. It
  was voted by the senate in 44 BC.^[8]
  but was possibly never built.
• a temple built by
  Livia
  according to Ovid’s
  Fasti
  VI.637‑638 (“te quoque magnifica,
  Concordia, dedicat
  aede
  Livia quam caro praestitit ipsa viro”
  – the only literary reference to this temple). The description of the
  Porticus Liviae
  follows immediately, and it
  is probable therefore that the temple was close to or within the porticus,
  but the small rectangular structure marked on the Marble Plan (frg. 10) can
  hardly have been a temple deserving of the epithet “magnifica” (HJ 316).

In Pompeii
, the high priestess
Eumachia
dedicated a building to Concordia
Augusta.

Modern religion

Harmonians and some
Discordians
equate Concordia with
Aneris
. Her opposite is thus Discordia, or the
Greek
Eris
.