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Message:: [QUOTE="Volodya, post: 7485153, member: 19615"]I'm not aware of any scholarship discussing this; research on the coins of Amyntas isn't really plentiful anyway. The full text of RPC I (as opposed to the description-only online listing) may touch on it; I'll try to remember to check tomorrow when I'm back in the office. I don't think it matters all that much though. It's pretty hard to see for instance the coin Andres2 posted just upthread as anything other than a portrait of Cleopatra. Here's another example, maybe even clearer, photo courtesy CNG E281, lot 126: [ATTACH=full]1294959[/ATTACH] In the end, any opinion on this--academic or lay--is going to distill down to some version of "compare this bust on the Amyntas/Artemis bronzes to the portraits of Cleo on the silver coins that name her." That, and the inherent plausibility of Amyntas honoring/brown-nosing Cleopatra this way. How else can we proceed but to look at the coins? We're not likely to ever have "proof" of the actual intentions of the Galatian engravers or their bosses. If someone prefers a description that flips the emphasis, something like "Bust of Artemis with the features of Cleopatra" to the one I proposed initially, that's fine. I think that choice comes down to a matter of personal taste. Phil Davis[/QUOTE]