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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 7851977, member: 89514&quot;]Varbanov 5818: &quot;river-god Hebros at her feet to r., visible to waist&quot;. No mention that the city goddess steps on him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regling, AMNG 1910, p. 629: City goddess places one foot on Pontos who is emerging below, and who wears crab&#039;s claws that identify him as an ocean god. Regling thinks there was probably such a sculpture in Tomis, that the coin engravers copied. He doesn&#039;t explain why the city goddess was depicted placing her foot on Pontos, though he mentions coins of Amisus on which Tyche places her rudder on the bearded head of Pontos (note 4).</p><p><br /></p><p>Note 3: Pontos in this type was first correctly identified,&nbsp; and presumably also the fact observed that the city goddess was placing her foot on him, by Svoronos in 1889 and Imhoof-Blumer in 1897. Earlier numismatists had misidentified the figure in various ways, for example Mazzoleni (1740) suggested he was Absyrtos, the brother of Medusa who was cut into pieces![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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