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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 8146122, member: 75143&quot;]For Secret Saturnalia I was given this wonderful large bronze of Philip I with an amazing architectural reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420725[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I always like to try to imagine what these places would look like in real life, so I set about using my &quot;masterful&quot; Microsoft Word photo-editing skills to try to make a fun pastiche to reconstruct this complex.</p><p><br /></p><p>When we zoom in, we see a few things that I think are neat. I dramatically upped the contrast to make it more clear.</p><p>The whole complex is shown in a sort of tilted birds-eye view which makes it look rather like a mountain, but its just the odd angle its depicted at.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420734[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A view of the area in front demonstrates that this is a colonnaded courtyard, filled with trees in the middle and with a monumental gateway entrance at the front.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420736[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Going to the temple proper, we see a tetrastyle temple with a uniquely Eastern arched pediment. It&#039;s impossible to know for sure what deity is worshipped here, but if we get real close on the cult statue we can tell, at a minimum, it&#039;s a standing, facing figure. It would probably be around at least 20 feet tall, I would imagine, for it to fill up the entire portal. However, it&#039;s more likely that the statue was even taller, and would not have been fully visible from the outside.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420735[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The columns are neat. It&#039;s hard to tell exactly the order, but I would suspect that they are actually Corinthian Solomonic columns. At first I thought they had the spiral fluting that we see in some other Eastern coins, such as this one of Caracalla:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420729[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Now it could be just the small size forced the celator to abbreviate the fluting into a few strokes, but I think its more fun (and fanciful!) to imagine Solomonic columns here.</p><p><br /></p><p>So putting all that together, I threw together a quick collage that maybe kinda gives an impression of what this place might have looked like.</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1420731[/ATTACH] </p><p>For lack of a better idea, I used a kouros as the cult statue, as it&#039;s generically frontal enough that it sort of has the same idea as the statue represented on the coin.</p><p>I used a peristyle court for the surroundings, and the Temple of Hadrian at Ephesus as the temple proper. I then found these neat wooden Solomonic columns that I color corrected to look a bit more marble like.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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