Marcus Agrippa: Right-hand Man of Caesar Augustus (60 page)

(ii) Augustus or Tiberius or Caligula

• Bronze
  as
  , struck 14–37 or 37–41 CE in Rome. Obverse: M AGRIPPA L F COS III, head of Agrippa wearing
  corona navalis
  facing left. Reverse: S C flanking standing semi-naked god Neptunus draped in cloak, holding trident in left hand, dolphin in right hand. (Numismatic reference:
  BMCRE
  I 122, Cohen 17; Komnick K50.0;
  RIC
  I 817.)
  

(iii) Titus

• Bronze
  as
  , restitution issue struck between 79–81 CE in Rome. Obverse: M AGRIPPA L F COS III, head of Agrippa wearing
  corona navalis
  facing left. Reverse: IMP T VESP AVG REST D S C flanking standing semi-naked god Neptunus draped in cloak, holding trident in left hand, dolphin in right hand. (Numismatic references: Cohen Agrippa 6; Komnick II K52.0;
  RCV
  2589;
  RIC
  II 209;
  BMCRE
  II 470 [Titus].)
  

(iv) Domitian

• Bronze
  as
  , restitution issue struck in 82 CE in Rome. Obverse: M AGRIPPA L F COS III, head of Agrippa facing left wearing
  corona navalis
  facing left. Reverse: IMP D AVG REST D S C flanking standing semi-naked god Neptunus draped in cloak, holding trident in left hand, dolphin in right hand. (Numismatic references:
  BMCRE
  II 510 [Domitian]; Cohen 7;
  RIC
  4570.)
  

(v) Trajan

• Silver
  denarius
  , restitution issue struck 98–117 CE in Rome. Obverse: AVGVSTVS, head of Augustus facing right. Reverse: IMP CAES TRAIAN AVG GER DAC P P REST | COSSVS CN F LENTVLVS, equestrian statue of Agrippa facing right on a pedestal, right wearing crested helmet and holding a military trophy. Restitution issue. (Numismatic reference:
  BMCRE
  III 694 [Trajan], Cohen 17; Komnick 50.0;
  RIC
  II 817.)
  

(c) Provincial Mints

Gallia Narbonensis

• Bronze
  dupondius
  (
  plate 31
  ), struck between 31–27 BCE in Arausio. Obverse: IMP DIVI F, head of Caesar (Octavianus) facing right back to back with head
  of Agrippa facing left. Reverse: prow of warship, disk with ram’s head above. (Numismatic references:
  RPC
  533.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  , struck between 28/27–9/8 BCE in Nemausus. Obverse: IMP DIVI F, head of Augustus facing right back to back with bearded head of Agrippa facing left wearing
  corona navalis
  . Reverse: COL NEM, crocodile facing right laid over palm with crown in upper left quadrant. (Numismatic references:
  RPC
  523.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  , struck between 9/8–3 BCE in Nemausus. Obverse: IMP DIVI F, head of Augustus facing right back to back with bearded head of Agrippa facing left wearing
  corona navalis
  . Reverse: COL NEM, crocodile facing right laid over palm with crown in upper left quadrant. (Numismatic references:
  RPC
  524.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  , struck between 9/8 BCE–14 CE in Nemausus. Obverse: IMP DIVI F P P, laureate head of Augustus facing right back to back with laureate head of Agrippa facing left wearing
  corona navalis
  . Reverse: COL NEM, crocodile facing right laid over palm with crown in upper left quadrant. (Numismatic references:
  RPC
  525–526,
  RIC
  159–160.)
  

Hispania Ulterior (Hispania Baetica)

• Brass
  sestertius
  , struck in Gades, date uncertain (but after 27 BCE). Obverse: MVNICIPI PARENS, male figure seated on a
  sella curulis
  . Reverse: M AGRIPPA COS III,
  acrostolium
  . (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  77.)
  
• Brass
  sestertius
  , struck in Gades, date uncertain (but after 27 BCE). Obverse: head of Hercules wearing lion head with club. Reverse: M AGRIPPA COS III MVNICIPI PARENS,
  acrostolium
  . (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  78.)
  
• Brass
  sestertius
  , struck in Gades, date uncertain. Obverse: AGRIPPA, head of Agrippa facing left. Reverse: MVNICIPI PARENS,
  acrostolium
  . (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  80.)
  
• Brass
  sestertius
  , minted in Gades, date uncertain. Obverse: AGRIPPA, head of Agrippa facing right. Reverse: MVNICIPI PATRONVS PARENS,
  acrostolium
  . (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  83.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  , struck in Gades, date uncertain. Obverse: head of Hercules wearing lion head with club. Reverse: MVNICIPI PATRONVS PARENS,
  acrostolium
  . (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  73.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  , struck in Gades, date uncertain. Obverse: head of Agrippa facing left wearing
  corona navalis
  . Reverse: MVNICIPI PATRONVS PARENS,
  acrostolium
  . (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  81.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  , struck in Gades, date uncertain. Obverse: head of Hercules wearing lion head with club. Reverse: MVNICIPI PATRONVS PARENS,
  acrostolium
  . (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  82.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  , struck in Gades, date uncertain. Obverse: head of Agrippa facing right wearing
  corona navalis
  . Reverse: MVNICIPI PATRONVS PARENS,
  acrostolium
  . (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  84.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  (?), struck 18/17 BCE in Carthago Nova. Obverse: HIBERO PRAEF M AGRIP QVIN, head of Agrippa facing right. Reverse: L BENNIO PRAEF, military trophy. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  164).
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  , struck in Tingi, date uncertain. Obverse: MBAALT, head of Baal facing forward. Reverse: M AGRIPPA IVL TIN, head of Agrippa facing left. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  864).
  

Hispania Citerior (Hispania Tarraconensis)

• Bronze
  dupondius
  *
  , struck 38/39 BCE in Caesaraugusta. Obverse: M AGRIPPA L F COS III, head of Agrippa facing left wearing
  corona navalis
  . Reverse: CCA TITVLLO ET MONTANO IIVIR, man driving plow drawn by two bulls. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  386.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  *
  (
  plate 33
  ), struck 38/39 BCE in Caesaraugusta. Obverse: M AGRIPPA L F COS III, head of Agrippa facing left wearing
  corona navalis
  . Reverse: CCA SCIPIONE ET MONTANO IIVIR, man driving plow drawn by two bulls. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  381.)
  

Siciliae

• Bronze
  dupondius
  *
  , struck before 21 BCE in Agrigentum. Obverse: AKPAΓANTINΏN, head of a man facing right. Reverse: AKPAΓANTINΏN, head of a man facing right. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  658.)
  

Achaea

• Bronze
  dupondius
  *
  , struck shortly after 27 BCE in Nikopolis. Observe: KTIΣMA ΣEBAΣTOY, head of Agrippa facing left. Reverse: IEPA NIKOΠOΛIS,
  acrostollium
  between
  corona
  . (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  1366.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  *
  , struck shortly after 27 BCE in Nikopolis. Observe: KTIΣMA ΣEBAΣTOY, head of Agrippa facing left. Reverse: IEPA NIKOΠOΛIS, dolphin and trident. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  1367.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  *
  , struck 16 BCE
  *
  in Sparta. Observe: AΓP, head of Agrippa facing right. Reverse: Λ A EYPIKΛE,
  caduceus
  . (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  1106.)
  
• Silver
  denarius
  , minted in Zecca north Peloponnese in 16–21 BCE
  *
  . Obverse: head of Augustus facing right. Obverse:
  corona navalis
  with ribbon surrounding two ships’ rams, back to back. (Numismatic reference:
  BMCRE
  I 669, RIC I 473).
  

Creta et Cyrenarum

• Bronze
  dupondius
  , produced at provincial mint, 18–12 BCE. Obverse: CAESAR TRIB POT AGRIPPA, head of Augustus facing right opposite Agrippa facing left. Reverse: SCATO PROCOS surrounded by laurel crown. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  942.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  *
  , minted at Knossos, date uncertain, 14 BCE
  *
  . Obverse: C INC EX DD, head of a man facing right, labyrinth behind. Reverse: M AIMILI T FVFIVS IIVIR R I, head of a man. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  976.)
  

Bosporus

• Gold
  stater
  , uncertain mint, 14 BCE. Obverse: head of Augustus facing left. Reverse: BAE A, head of Agrippa facing right. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  1865).
  
• Gold
  stater
  , uncertain mint, 8 BCE–13 CE. Obverse: head of Augustus facing left. Reverse: monogramme and letters, head of a man facing right. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  1865.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  *
  , minted at Agrippia-Phanagoria, date uncertain. Obverse: head of a woman facing right covered with scarf or veil. Reverse: AΓPIΠΠEΏN, prow of warship. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  935.)
  

Asia

• Bronze
  dupondius
  , uncertain mint, 23 BCE
  *
  . Obverse: AVGVSTVS, head of Augustus facing right. Reverse: CA [for
  Communitas Asiae
  ?] within
  corona
  . (Numismatic references: BMC 713, CBN 956 (Pergamum), RIC 501 (Pergamum), RPC 2233.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  *
  , minted at Alabanda after 14 CE. Obverse: ΣEBAΣTOI, laureate head of Augustus facing Livia. Reverse: AΛABANΔEΏN, star above two small laureate heads offset in profile facing right, at laureate head of man facing left. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  2816).
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  *
  , minted at Parium after 27 BCE. Obverse: IMP CAES DIVI F CGIP, head of Augustus facing right. Reverse: M AGRIPPA, head of Agrippa facing right. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  2260.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  *
  , minted at Ephesus, reading and date of issue uncertain. Obverse: head of Iulia and Agrippa. Reverse: ΠPΏTΏN AΣIAΣ. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  434.)
  

Pontus et Bithynia

• Bronze
  dupondius
  *
  , minted in Apameia in 27 BCE. Obverse: IMP CAESAR DIVI F AVGVSTVS COS VII, head of Augustus facing right. Reverse: AGRIPPA COS III IMP C DI F SCCR C CASSIVS CF IIVIR CICF, head of Agrippa facing right. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  2008.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  *
  , minted in Apameia in 12 BCE–4 CE. Obverse: AGRIPPA TR POT CIC, head of Agrippa facing right. Reverse: AGRIPPA AVG NEPOS, head of Agrippa facing right. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  2011.)
  
• Bronze
  dupondius
  *
  , minted in Amisos in 9–10 CE. Obverse: AMIΣHN ETOYΣ AM, head of laureate man facing right. Reverse: head of a man facing right. (Numismatic reference:
  RPC
  2149.)
  

*
Surmised – not known with certainty.

3. Inscriptions

M. Agrippa’s life and career are attested by carved inscriptions from around the Roman world, including many of the places he visited in person. He is invariably shown as ‘M. Agrippa’ or ‘M. Agrippa L. F.’ or the Greek equivalent, e.g.
CIL
VI.1.1375 (Rome).

Marking his first consulship with L. Caninius Gallus in 37 BCE there are the
Fasti CIL
1
²
, 28, 1
²
, 65, 1
²
, 158–159 (Rome), IV.2437 (Pompeii), V.2813 (Patavium), XI.2105 (Clusium), XIV.82 (Ostia); also
Ephemeris
VIII, 592 (Casinum, Latium), and
CIL
VI.4.31270 (Rome) = Dessau 1.128. Citing his second consulship in 33 BCE are CIL 1
²
, 160–161 (Rome) and IX.422 (Venusia) = Dessau 2.1.6123. Numerous inscriptions cite his third consulship of 27 BCE, many found on public buildings in Rome (
Fasti Consulares
,
plate 26
,
CIL
I)
²
, and across the empire:
CIL
1
²
, 160–161 (Rome), XIV.2240 (Mons Albanus), Orelli II, 4899b (Rome),
CIL
IX.4779 (Forum Novum) and X.2.7559 (Sardinia). Two fragments of the
Fasti Praenestini CIL
I 1 (Rome) (a) 231, (b) 236 indicates he stepped down on 24 April = Dessau 2.2.8844 interprets that he stepped down on 23 April.

His term as aedile is shown on
CIL
IV.4.31270 dated to 33 BCE. Confirming grants of
tribunicia potestas
are
CIL
III.494, VI.32323.53, IX.3150, IX.3913, XIV.2230 (Mons Albanus), Dessau 3.2.8897 (Ephesus) and
IG
12.5.740; and his prefecture
CIL
IX, 3913 (Alba Fucens) and IX.4677 (Reate) = Dessau 2.1.6543. Confirming him as
censor
is the
Res Gestae
,
Monumentum Ancyranum
8 (II
²
) and
CIL
IX.422 (Venusia) dated to 22 BCE. He is referred to as
imperator
on several inscriptions including
CIL
IX.2200 (Telesia), IX.262 (Gnathia) and IX.422 (Venusia) = Dessau 2.1.6123. His role in the
Ludi Saeculares
of 17 BCE is commemorated on the
Monumentum Ancyranum
4.37 and
CIL
VI.1.877 = Dessau 2.1.5050.

Of his children
CIL
V.6359 and VI.9901 attest to the birth of Vipsania Agrippina;
PIR
²
C 1102 to Vipsania Marcella; and the inscriptions documented in A. Plassart,
Bulletin de Correspondence Hellénique
50 (1926), pp. 447–448, nos. 88–89 mention Vipsania Agrippina. Agrippa is acknowledged as the father of Agrippina (the Elder) on her gravestone (
CIL
VI.1.886 (Rome)).