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Imperial Sceptre Heads in Roman Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

D. Fishwick
D. Fishwick
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Dept. of Classics, University of Alberta, Canad
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Britannia , Volume 19 , November 1988 , pp. 399 - 400
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Copyright © Professor D. Fishwick 1988. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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9 See Fishwick, ‘Roma et Augustus’ in op. cit. (note 4), 120–125; idem, ‘L'autel des Trois Gaules: Le témoignage des monnaies’ BSAF (1986), 90–100.

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