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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4958426, member: 87200"]Cool coin [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] - this syncretic theme appears to have become popular after the turn of the millennium, that was my guess.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a wikipedia passage which supports this assumption.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>"In the Alexandrian and Roman renewed vogue for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries" rel="nofollow">Greco-Roman mysteries</a> at the turn of the millennium into the common era — mystery cults had already existed for centuries — the worship of Horus became widely extended, linked with his mother Isis and his father <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapis" rel="nofollow">Serapis</a>."</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I've also heard of the Isis cult spreading to Rome in the 1st century A.D. and then becoming popular throughout the empire. One of the theories on this phenomenon is that after Octavian's annexation of Egypt there was a great deal of interest in Egyptian culture and styles (which already were ancient at the time) for example, use of the systrum and even representations of the Nile and Nilos appearing on household mosaics.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4958426, member: 87200"]Cool coin [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] - this syncretic theme appears to have become popular after the turn of the millennium, that was my guess. Here is a wikipedia passage which supports this assumption. [I]"In the Alexandrian and Roman renewed vogue for the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries']Greco-Roman mysteries[/URL] at the turn of the millennium into the common era — mystery cults had already existed for centuries — the worship of Horus became widely extended, linked with his mother Isis and his father [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapis']Serapis[/URL]."[/I] [I][/I] I've also heard of the Isis cult spreading to Rome in the 1st century A.D. and then becoming popular throughout the empire. One of the theories on this phenomenon is that after Octavian's annexation of Egypt there was a great deal of interest in Egyptian culture and styles (which already were ancient at the time) for example, use of the systrum and even representations of the Nile and Nilos appearing on household mosaics.[/QUOTE]
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