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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dltsrq, post: 4959730, member: 75482&quot;]If I&#039;m not mistaken the first coin images of Mary holding the infant Jesus appear well into the Byzantine era. From a more general perspective, I have seen scholars draw a syncretic connection between popular Roman reverence of Isis Lactans in the first centuries CE and the nascent cult of Mary as &quot;Mother of God&quot; which was formally incorporated into orthodox Christianity at the Council of Ephesus in 431. Having a strong interest in the early Church, that&#039;s where my mind tends to go when I see one of the Isis denari.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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