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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NewStyleKing, post: 3973869, member: 106483&quot;]I have wrote a few pages on academia.edu ( under my name of John Arnold Nisbet) about the New Style but following Ashton and his work on Rhodian Bronze coinage and siege of Mithradates and the re-dating of the Roman era of Ephesos/Roman Asia minor by the late Jorge Muller I have linked the cistaphoric coins of Ephesos with Isiac symbols also with that event. And then generally base on an altered New Style where the Pontic badge( Star &amp; 2/1 Crescent(s)) symbol as been replaced with a Headdress of Isis symbol. I have concluded that various Isiac symbols of around this time can be seen as a partisan badge of Roman support.</p><p>For what ever reason stars are common on coins and are a sign of divinity on the Roman Elagabalus denerii. But occasionally have also on their own been connected with Mithridates.</p><p>A theory for the beginning of the New Style is to celebrate the Athenian great Panathenia c 166 or 162 BC ( Julia Shear via Meadows).In the past I have linked the Priene Owl on Amphora bronzes with winning at the games and why not this? Also I have linked ( no evidence again) the owl on amphora type of Kalakte Sicily with an expression of the Greek koinon maybe to declare Greekness in the face of Roman dominance.&nbsp; enjoy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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