Phoenician/Aramaic graffiti on the reverse of Alexanders are quite common. This is one of my coins, a drachm with an aleph graffito on the...
I am 100% sure it is a Phoenician mem. Phoenician script has been in use for more than 1000 years from North Africa to Babylonia to write...
It is not a swastika, it is the Phoenician letter mim (= M).
[ATTACH] Philip the Arab, Hieropolis (Mambij, Syria) 244-249. tetrassarion (12 h) Obv.: AVTOK K M IOVΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CЄB, laureate, draped and...
Barbarous does not mean Barbarian. And the late 4th c. Sri Lankan imitations are fascinating.
I buy frames only for old pictures, but not for contemporary ones. [ATTACH] (and I really should invest in a new stair carpet) [ATTACH]
Post all things Pompeian, he said... I never had in my hand any coin with Pompey's portrait, but here is a coin minted in 58 BC by one of Pompey's...
You are right, the Vespasian denarii with a sow have no relation at all with the Jews. This sow was a sacred animal in the Roman tradition (well...
But why is Victoria dancing and wasting all the paper roll in front of the toilet seat?
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