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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SeptimusT, post: 3300577, member: 91240&quot;]I’ve recently been researching a similarly perplexing coin for a possible article for <i>Koinon</i>, and one realization that I had which has been very helpful in reconciling this sort of irregular iconography in my mind is that the ancient Romans and Greeks did not, strange as it sounds to us, necessarily believe that there was only one Artemis (or one Apollo, or even one Zeus). Read Cicero’s description of three Dianas very literally. Local deities were not just interpreted as being the equivalent Greco-Roman deity, but sometimes as a ‘different’ deity of the same name, and often adopted the implements of the god they were identified with <i>plus</i> some foreign element, which throws us off. So this could be the local cultic version of Artemis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Their logic for these things does not fit with our logic for these things, and it’s hard to wrap our head around. I would say that researching the archaeology and temples of the issuing city is the most likely route to reveal an answer. The second theory seems plausible, but sometimes these things are just forever forgotten, sad as it is. I never knew how many weird iconographic amalgams existed which don’t fit with our ‘orthodox’ concept of these gods.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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