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Tag: control mark

Desultor’s cap

June 14, 2014June 14, 2014 ~ Liv Yarrow ~ Leave a comment

Really, I’m going to try not to become (more) obsessed with the Papius series.  But I just couldn’t resist this one.  The pointy thing on the obverse matches with the whip, because together they are the attributes of the desultor [links to all posts on the top]:

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