About 35 years ago someone brought into my office for identification a very worn tetradrachm of the Indo-Greek king Hermaios c. 90–70 BC that he...
@Severus Alexander, well done, you!
"Ο Ντόναλντ Τραμπ - Donald Trump (I'm a bit puzzled by the second alpha!)". I'm not sure that today's Greeks have a short "u" sound as the English...
@Valentinian, no need - @Severus Alexander supplied all. I'm sorry to have mystified anyone. I read the Greek in lower case more readily than in...
@Valentinian and I were yesterday talking about the epigraphic evidence of the evolving pronunciation of certain Greek and Latin letters in late...
I love these! Here's mine. [ATTACH]
Thank you for pointing this earlier example out. I was aware of it, but forgot all about it! It is always an interesting exercise to see how the...
My friend Valentinian, Another example of the evolving Greek and Latin languages in late antiquity. In Classical Latin, Vita was pronounced Wita....
I’ve always had a fondness for Julian, from my childhood reading of Ammianus Marcellinus, Gibbon, and even Gore Vidal’s 1964 novel Julian! Later,...
In 355 AD, the Caesar Julian delivered a panegyric in honor of his kinsman and emperor Constantius II. Although I often don't remember what I did...
Coincidentally, last evening I was looking at one of my Constantine II Rome issues displaying what we used to refer to as sideburns (perhaps still...
Dear @Valentinian, Very nice write up, as always– thank you! It’s not for nothing that Classicists refer to the 4th c. onward as the “Dominate”....
Dear Valentinian, the full inscription would be: Κων[σ]τ[αντινος ο] Δ[ου]κ[ας] Ευδ[ο]κ[ια] Αυγ[ουστοι] = Constantine Doukas, Eudocia, Augusti (or,...
Dear @medoraman, Did you ever get your "Christopher"? I hope so. Here is one of mine. Romanus, Christopher, and Constantine VII....
That's a beautiful example! The oldest surviving painting of the more traditional "Pantokrator" portrait, as found on the coinage of Justinian's...
I see, thank you!
You have a lot of wonderful ones, too! I love the linear treatment of the Syracuse coins.
A few western "gold" coins: Constantine IV / Heraclius and Tiberius. Carthage, 674-5. Solidus. 4.29 gr. 12 mm. 6 hr. Sear 1187A; H. 18; DO...
During the mid to end of the 5th c., we begin seeing Greek letter forms appearing instead of Latin ones. This is certainly due to the engravers,...
Does half of a "unique" coin count? Here is the better half of a ceremonial miliaresion of Constantine IV. His beardless, civilian bust...
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