Profectio
First side of the image: IMP TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trajan to right.
Second side of the image: PROFECTIO AUGUSTI, Traianus, in military dress and hold spear, on horse walking to right; before him, soldier walking right, head turned back to left; behind, three soldiers walking right.
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Second side of the image: Profectio di Marcus Aurelius on horseback right, holding spear, preceded by soldier holding spear and shield; three soldiers follow emperor.
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First side of the image: L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP VIII, Laureate head of Septimius Severus to right (Paludamentum)
Second side of the image: PROFECTIO AUG, Septimius Severus riding horse starts for limes Orientis, holding transverse spear.
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Second side of the image: PROFECTIO AVGVSTI, Alexander Severus on horse, holding transverse spear, preceded by Victoria, with a crown and palm.
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The profectio ("setting forth") was the ceremonial departure of a consul in his guise as a general in Republican Rome, and of an emperor during the Imperial era. It was a conventional scene for relief sculpture and imperial coinage. The return was the reditus and the ceremonial reentry the adventus.