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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brassnautilus, post: 2146957, member: 74300&quot;]problem with the baetyl explaination is that the objects you guys had shown really didn&#039;t look like baetyl. </p><p>the neck part was quite obvious on all those examples, and there just wasn&#039;t any evidence that roman baetyl looked that way.</p><p>baetyl often also featured textures carved into the surfaces. It simply wasn&#039;t the case on the coins shown here.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think a few things ancients worshiped were mixed up, and calling all of them baetyl is like saying they are all mysterious objects. </p><p><br /></p><p>IMHO, only these were baetyl:</p><p><img src="http://www.livius.org/site/assets/files/11140/coin_elagabal_baetyl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.swastika-info.com/images/application/races/celtic/stelen-st-germain-frankreich.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; </p><p>a different type</p><p><img src="http://i61.tinypic.com/2w3yw09.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://i61.tinypic.com/14nn6va.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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