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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24854996, member: 26430&quot;]Great information about the other reliefs and the inscription, thanks for sharing!</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, that convinces me that must be Philip kneeling. The term &quot;supplication&quot; does it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;supplicants&quot; on coins are sometimes called &quot;captives&quot; but usually that&#039;s not right; they can be, or can be begging the freedom of a captive, but not usually. So I had actually wondered about captive Valerian in the &quot;supplication&quot; pose.</p><p><br /></p><p>This makes it an even more direct borrowing from Roman art. There&#039;s an article I found really fascinating on the four steps (I think) of the Roman supplication ritual:</p><p><br /></p><p>Naiden 2003 &quot;Supplication on Roman Coins.&quot; Am. Jour. Numis. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43580366" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43580366" rel="nofollow">https://www.jstor.org/stable/43580366</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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