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This paper offers a new interpretation of the so-called Consecratio ivory diptych in the British Museum based on Macrobius' Commentary on the Dream of Scipio. In addition, on the basis of the well attested links between Macrobius and the Roman senatorial families of the Symmachi and the Nicomachi it is stated that this diptych might have been carved at Rome in 431 on the occasion of the official rehabilitation of Virius Nicomachus Flavianus by the Emperor Valentinian III.
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A groundbreaking interpretation of a famous and fascinating fifth-century diptych. A contribution to the debates on whether art served as a vehicle for "Pagan propaganda" against the Christian Empire, focusing on an example of that late antique "secular art" whose message and language were shared by Christian and non-Christian Roman aristocrats.
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This page is a summary of: El „Sueño de Escipión“ (Cic. rep.), el „díptico de la Consecratio“ (British Museum) y la rehabilitación oficial de Virio Nicómaco Flaviano (431), Klio, February 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/klio-2017-0041.
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