The ''profectio'' ("setting forth") was the ceremonial departure of a

consul Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states th ...

in his guise as a general in

Republican Rome The Roman Republic ( la, Res publica Romana ) was a form of government of Rome and the era of the classical Roman civilization when it was run through public representation of the Roman people. Beginning with the overthrow of the Roman King ...

, and of an

emperor An emperor (from la, imperator, via fro, empereor) is a monarch, and usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife ( empress consort), mother ( e ...

during the Imperial era. It was a conventional scene for

relief sculpture Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term '' relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...

and imperial coinage. The return was the ''reditus'' and the ceremonial reentry the ''

adventus Adventus is the Latin word for arrival, and may mean *Adventus (ceremony), the ceremony of an emperor's formal arrival at a city (usually, but not always, Rome) **Adventus (art), the artistic convention of depicting this ceremony *The Latin word fo ...

''.Manders, ''Coining Images of Power,'' p. 70.

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