Deorum dearumque capita
Subtitle: ex vetustis numismatibus in gratiam antiquitatis studiosorum effigiata et edita
By: ex museo Abrahami Ortelii
Contributors: Galle, Philippe, 1537-1612, engraver
Publisher: Philippus Gallaeus excudebat
Published: 1573
Place of publication: Antuerpiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Coin collections; Gods in numismatics; Pictorial works; Early works to 1800; Roman Numismatics
Other titles: Deorvm dearvmqve capita
Notes: Dedication and prefatory epistle by Ortelius.

Printer from colophon.

Engraved t.p.

Signatures: A⁴ [B]-[O]⁴ P⁴.  Leaves A1, [B]1-P2 are engraved.

The plates consist of heads of divinities and personifications engraved by Philippe Galle (see Bib. belgica), each in a roundel with broad border of strapwork and grotesquerie. Within each border are 2 tablets with name of the figure represented and the coin from which it was taken.

"Scriptorum veterum ac recentium, qui ex professo deorum gentilium historias vel imagines descripserunt, elenchus"-p. [7]-[8].

Bib. Belgica (1964-1970 éd.), IV, O.206

Adams O-325