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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3545821, member: 56859&quot;]Another tremendous coin, Jochen!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Okay <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Here are some thoughts about your writings.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; Since this is a provincial coin, I lean towards local legends and myths which support the coin&#039;s iconography.&nbsp;&nbsp; For that reason, your second theory seems more plausible--&nbsp; the reverse is the Thracian equivalent of Diana/Artemis, and the child is possibly Heros or Orpheus.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; The infant as Cupid seems a stretch.&nbsp;&nbsp; Is there any evidence that the myths Cicero documents were prevalent in Philippopolis?&nbsp; Also, isn&#039;t Cupid usually portrayed with wings?</p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; Artemis supposedly helped her mother give birth to Apollo.&nbsp; Perhaps the child on your coin is her brother Apollo?&nbsp; Artemis and Apollo are often referred to as twins, but in the wacky world of mythology things don&#039;t have to adhere to the laws of earth and man.&nbsp; Maybe &quot;twins&quot; doesn&#039;t have the same connotation.&nbsp; Maybe Leto delivered Artemis, who instantly aged and then helped deliver her brother.&nbsp; It makes no less sense than many other weird god-birth stories <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>4.&nbsp; Artemis was a midwife.&nbsp; Perhaps the infant/child is simply a generic representation of this aspect of her roles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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