Profectio Explained

The profectio ("setting forth") was the ceremonial departure of a consul in his guise as a general in Republican Rome,^[1] and of an emperor during the Imperial era.^[2] It was a conventional scene for relief sculpture and imperial coinage.^[3] The return was the reditus^[4] and the ceremonial reentry the adventus.^[5]

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Notes and References

1. Andrew Feldherr, Spectacle and Society in Livy's History (University of California Press, 1998), pp. 9–10.
2. Erika Manders, Coining Images of Power: Patterns in the Representation of Roman Emperors on Imperial Coinage, A.D. 193–282 (Brill, 2012), p. 71.
3. Manders, Coining Images of Power, p. 70–76.
4. Geoffrey S. Sumi, Ceremony and Power: Performing Politics in Rome Between Republic and Empire (University of Michigan Press, 2005), p. 35.
5. Manders, Coining Images of Power, p. 70.