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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6273491, member: 110350&quot;][USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER], I love Roman Alexandrian coins with traditional Egyptian iconography rather than Greco-Roman themes (or invented deities) from the post-Pharaonic era.&nbsp; In fact, I had a thread a month or so ago to show all my coins fitting into that category. See <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-hadrian-alexandrian-coin-with-traditional-egyptian-theme.373239/#post-5395208" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-hadrian-alexandrian-coin-with-traditional-egyptian-theme.373239/#post-5395208">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-hadrian-alexandrian-coin-with-traditional-egyptian-theme.373239/#post-5395208</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>So congratulations on finding one!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll show two of mine here, my own Hadrian Canopus and my Hadrian with a mummiform Ptah-Sokar-Osiris on the reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1248441[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1248440[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>One small correction, concerning your statement that the jar&#039;s &quot;lid is the head of Osiris with his hair coiffed in an Egyptian style called the klaft,&quot; to the extent it could be taken to imply that the jar was hollow. By this time, as I understand it, canopic jars had long since ceased to be hollow or actually to contain the deceased person&#039;s organs. Instead, the jar depicted was solid. Here&#039;s an excerpt from my footnote to my description of the Hadrian tetradrachm with a reverse showing a Canopic Jar of Osiris (a/k/a Osiris-Canopus Jar and Osiris-Hydreios):</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;See <a href="https://egypt-museum.com/post/189683370661/osiris-canopus-jar#gsc.tab=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://egypt-museum.com/post/189683370661/osiris-canopus-jar#gsc.tab=0" rel="nofollow">https://egypt-museum.com/post/189683370661/osiris-canopus-jar#gsc.tab=0</a>, with photos of the Osiris-Canopus Jar from Hadrian’s Villa, now at the Vatican Museum, describing it as “A Canopic jar with the head of Osiris emerging from it. In the cult of Isis and Serapis, during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, Osiris-Canopus jars (also known as Osiris-Hydreios) were carried by priests during processions. As they are solid, each symbolically carried water from the Nile, fertility that originated from the god Osiris, one of Egypt’s earliest fertility gods. Osiris-Canopus was named after the ancient Egyptian town of Canopus, on the western bank at the mouth of the westernmost branch of the Delta known as the Canopic or Heracleotic branch – not far from Alexandria. Roman Period, ca. 131-138 AD. Grey basalt, from Hadrian’s Villa. Now in the Vatican Museums (Gregoriano Egizio). 22852.”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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