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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4612295, member: 87200"]There was a wholesale move on the coinage and also how the tetrarchs were portrayed on statuary. Art history suggests that this was a sea change. One theory is that this was to make the rulers more remote, almost deified figures. When one came into the court of Diocletian it was expected for the visitor to perform proskynesis, the act of prostrating oneself before the emperor as had been the case in Persia. This statue which once was in Constantinople before being transported to Italy during the 4th Crusade portrays this. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1142339[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4612295, member: 87200"]There was a wholesale move on the coinage and also how the tetrarchs were portrayed on statuary. Art history suggests that this was a sea change. One theory is that this was to make the rulers more remote, almost deified figures. When one came into the court of Diocletian it was expected for the visitor to perform proskynesis, the act of prostrating oneself before the emperor as had been the case in Persia. This statue which once was in Constantinople before being transported to Italy during the 4th Crusade portrays this. [ATTACH=full]1142339[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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