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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 7856479, member: 91461&quot;]As always, you&#039;re thoughts are incredibly appreciated. Yours is an excellent example! The depiction on your coin and this amphora,&nbsp; of Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the Ketos, appears to support Mayor&#039;s theory. Note the skull/ head of our monster:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1353710[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t recall hearing of the Joppa connection, so I looked it up and found this entertaining article. </p><p><a href="https://www.theoi.com/Ther/KetosAithiopios.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theoi.com/Ther/KetosAithiopios.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.theoi.com/Ther/KetosAithiopios.html</a></p><p>Pliny the elder tells us that they worshiped her (that&#039;s right, he referrers to the monster as a Goddess!)</p><p>&quot;Pliny the Elder, Natural History 5. 69 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) :</p><p>&quot;Joppa [now the Israeli town of Jaffa] is said to have existed before the flood; it is situated on a hill, and in front of it is a rock on which they point out the marks made by the chains with which Andromeda was fettered; here there is a cult of the legendary goddess Ceto (the Sea-Monster).&quot; [N.B. Keto (Ceto) was the goddess of sea-monsters and whales.]&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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