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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4599567, member: 57495"]I love this type for exactly that reason. Yours is a very nice example.</p><p><br /></p><p>The provincial below has a nice, but rather mournful portrait of little doomed Diadumenian, son of Macrinus. When Macrinus was defeated at his last battle by the armies supporting Elagabalus, he attempted to seek safety for Diadumenian at the Parthian court of Artabanus V, but the boy was caught en route and murdered, his head given to Elagabalus as a trophy. Diadumenian was about 10 years of age at the time. Macrinus, trying to make it back to Rome from Antioch, apparently learnt of his son's fate before he was himself captured and executed in Cappadocia. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1139241[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>DIADUMENIAN</b></p><p>AE24. 11.08g, 23.6mm. PHOENICIA, Byblus, AD 217. Cf. Rouvier 699; BMC 40-3. O: M OΠ ΔIAΔVMENIANOC KAI, bareheaded and cuirassed bust right. R: BYB - ΛOV IEPAC, Astarte wearing a polos standing facing, carrying a spear, foot on prow, being crowned by Nike on short column to right; all within distyle temple with a fancy arched roof.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4599567, member: 57495"]I love this type for exactly that reason. Yours is a very nice example. The provincial below has a nice, but rather mournful portrait of little doomed Diadumenian, son of Macrinus. When Macrinus was defeated at his last battle by the armies supporting Elagabalus, he attempted to seek safety for Diadumenian at the Parthian court of Artabanus V, but the boy was caught en route and murdered, his head given to Elagabalus as a trophy. Diadumenian was about 10 years of age at the time. Macrinus, trying to make it back to Rome from Antioch, apparently learnt of his son's fate before he was himself captured and executed in Cappadocia. [ATTACH=full]1139241[/ATTACH] [B]DIADUMENIAN[/B] AE24. 11.08g, 23.6mm. PHOENICIA, Byblus, AD 217. Cf. Rouvier 699; BMC 40-3. O: M OΠ ΔIAΔVMENIANOC KAI, bareheaded and cuirassed bust right. R: BYB - ΛOV IEPAC, Astarte wearing a polos standing facing, carrying a spear, foot on prow, being crowned by Nike on short column to right; all within distyle temple with a fancy arched roof.[/QUOTE]
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