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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3702598, member: 56859"]Fantastic coin and writeup, RC!</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your coin, the object is between Apollo's hand and the tree sure looks like a lizard to me... a lizard being pulled by its tail.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect this is indeed the case.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Very</i> interesting!</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the Praxiteles sculpture, I don't see Apollo's stance as being one of threat. He's leaning casually against the tree, holding an arrow in his supinated hand. That would be an extremely odd and inefficient way of dispatching the critter <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. He looks more like he's observing the animal, using the arrow to goad the lizard towards his left hand (resting on the tree above the lizard).</p><p><br /></p><p>Per the article by Patricia Lawrence cited by RC, my coin (below) is a variant of the usual pose, with Apollo holding a laurel branch in a nonthreatening manner.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_41ed639c24504f398f0257a9cf90a0ca~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_625,al_c,q_90/ae43f8_41ed639c24504f398f0257a9cf90a0ca~mv2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>MOESIA INFERIOR, Nikopolis ad Istrum. Caracalla</b></p><p>Ovinius Tertullus, legatus consularis.</p><p>AE 28, 13.05 gm</p><p>Obv: AV K M AVP ANTΩNINOC; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right</p><p>Rev: VΠA OOVI TEPTOVΛΛOV ΝΙΚΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΠΡΟC Ι; Apollo Sauroktonos standing right, holding laurel branch and leaning hand upon a tree stump with a lizard climbing up it.</p><p>Ref: H&J 8.18.7.1; Varbanov -.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3702598, member: 56859"]Fantastic coin and writeup, RC! As for your coin, the object is between Apollo's hand and the tree sure looks like a lizard to me... a lizard being pulled by its tail. I suspect this is indeed the case. [I]Very[/I] interesting! As for the Praxiteles sculpture, I don't see Apollo's stance as being one of threat. He's leaning casually against the tree, holding an arrow in his supinated hand. That would be an extremely odd and inefficient way of dispatching the critter :). He looks more like he's observing the animal, using the arrow to goad the lizard towards his left hand (resting on the tree above the lizard). Per the article by Patricia Lawrence cited by RC, my coin (below) is a variant of the usual pose, with Apollo holding a laurel branch in a nonthreatening manner. [IMG]https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_41ed639c24504f398f0257a9cf90a0ca~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_625,al_c,q_90/ae43f8_41ed639c24504f398f0257a9cf90a0ca~mv2.jpg[/IMG] [B]MOESIA INFERIOR, Nikopolis ad Istrum. Caracalla[/B] Ovinius Tertullus, legatus consularis. AE 28, 13.05 gm Obv: AV K M AVP ANTΩNINOC; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right Rev: VΠA OOVI TEPTOVΛΛOV ΝΙΚΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΠΡΟC Ι; Apollo Sauroktonos standing right, holding laurel branch and leaning hand upon a tree stump with a lizard climbing up it. Ref: H&J 8.18.7.1; Varbanov -.[/QUOTE]
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