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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3599356, member: 84744"]Thanks! I don't think there's any way that can be depicting merely a body of water. (If so it's a unique [and uniquely bad!] depiction.) Certainly not the Mediterranean; if it's Rome, that doesn't even make sense! It would be the Tiber.</p><p><br /></p><p>It suggests to me the higgledy-piggledy quasi-grid of farmsteads located outside the city walls. Or on second thought, I'm seeing it now: this thing is a bridge, complete with arches on the left, a bit of a gate (closed) at the bottom entrance, and some crowd-control measures at the top entrance:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]962931[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>... which would be consistent with a bridge over the Moselle or the Tiber. Though I think it fits best with Trier (which seems more likely to me, given the mint). This is a map of the relevant bit Roman Trier, with the red line indicating the position of the city wall and gate, and the bridge across the Moselle leading up to it:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]962930[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The bits to the right and left in the exergue that lack water flow lines might correspond to the areas of land on the city-side of the river outside the gates. You can see the gate is set back, creating two triangles between the walls and the river.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gosh, I love engaging in amateur speculation. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3599356, member: 84744"]Thanks! I don't think there's any way that can be depicting merely a body of water. (If so it's a unique [and uniquely bad!] depiction.) Certainly not the Mediterranean; if it's Rome, that doesn't even make sense! It would be the Tiber. It suggests to me the higgledy-piggledy quasi-grid of farmsteads located outside the city walls. Or on second thought, I'm seeing it now: this thing is a bridge, complete with arches on the left, a bit of a gate (closed) at the bottom entrance, and some crowd-control measures at the top entrance: [ATTACH=full]962931[/ATTACH] ... which would be consistent with a bridge over the Moselle or the Tiber. Though I think it fits best with Trier (which seems more likely to me, given the mint). This is a map of the relevant bit Roman Trier, with the red line indicating the position of the city wall and gate, and the bridge across the Moselle leading up to it: [ATTACH=full]962930[/ATTACH] The bits to the right and left in the exergue that lack water flow lines might correspond to the areas of land on the city-side of the river outside the gates. You can see the gate is set back, creating two triangles between the walls and the river. Gosh, I love engaging in amateur speculation. :D[/QUOTE]
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