Philip the Tetrarch, son of Herod the Great, was the first Jewish ruler to depict human images on his coins. This innovation of adopting numismatic portraiture must be understood in inseparable conjunction with Philip’s aggressive cultivation of the imperial cult at Paneas. The present article, accordingly, offers the first focused study of how the development of iconography on his issues corresponds to specific political events of cultic concern. In this connection, a new interpretation is suggested for Philip’s unique undated minting, deeply implicated in the imperial drama transpiring around the year 31 CE. The tetrarch’s savvy manipulation of images, when seen against this broad background, reveals his unwavering and intensifying allegiance to the domus Augusta: to the princeps in the form of a clipeus virtutis devotion and to Livia under the aspect of Demeter.

希律大帝的儿子腓力是第一位在他的硬币上描绘人像的犹太统治者。这种采用钱币肖像画的创新必须与菲利普在帕尼亚斯对帝国崇拜的积极培养密不可分。因此，本文首次重点研究了关于他的问题的图像学的发展如何与邪教关注的特定政治事件相对应。在这方面，建议对菲利普独特的未注明日期的铸币进行新的解释，该铸币与公元31年左右发生的帝国戏剧有很大关系。在这个广阔的背景下，分封者对图像的精明处理揭示了他对奥古斯塔宫的坚定不移的忠诚：对奥古斯塔的忠诚。princeps的在一个形式clipeus virtutis奉献和利维娅迪米特方面下。