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Roman propaganda cups, 1st century BC, from Museo Nazionale Romano - Terme di Diocleziano, Rome.

These cups, filled with food or drinks, were offered in the streets in occasion of the elections; the cups had the name of a candidate embroided. The cups depicted were produced for 63 BC elections for 62 BC. With the cup on the left, Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the younger) asks (petit) to be elected Tribune of the plebs. The cup on the right is payed by Lucius Cassius Longinus (praetor with Cicero in 66 BC) to support (suffragatur) Lucius Sergius Catilina (Catilinae) bid for consulate.

Photo taken by Salvatore Falco, June 2005.

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