Iconography
	LITERATURE
	Ancient
	→ Homer → Odyssey → Book IX: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Cicones, Lotophages, Polyphemus) → vv. 415-461: Ulysses and his comrades bind themselves at the belly of Polyphemus's sheep and so escape
	PORTRAITS
	Rulers
	→ Ancient → Roman emperors → Caracalla (209-217)

	Further details
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Late Roman
	DATE
	late 4th century - 5th century
	LOCATION
	London, British Museum (Dept. of Coins & Medals) (inv. 1840,0217.25)

	Notes on photograph
	COLLECTION
	Photo: Warburg Institute (neg. 328, 26/5)
	BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
	Andreas and Elisabeth Alföldi, Die Kontorniat-Medaillons, Berlin 1976, no. 422.4 (old catalogue 402)

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	RELATIONS
	British Museum

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