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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2696811, member: 83956&quot;]No coin here, but a later artistic reflex of the OP coin reverse imagery. So the Germans have a great word: <i>nachleben</i>, or afterlife, referring to the lingering influence of an artistic motif or concept. One of the more interesting examples of the <i>nachleben</i> of the classical “wolf and twins” motif is found on the Anglo-Saxon “Franks Casket” of the 8th century. The casket features carved panels depicting a fascinating mixture of Germanic pagan motifs and Christian history, testifying to the religious syncretism of Anglo-Saxon England. We see depictions of the legendary Germanic smith Weyland (a kind of Viking-age Vulcan), the nativity of Christ, Titus’s Sack of Jerusalem, and, or course, Romulus and Remus and the she-wolf of Rome. Each panel has some “captioning” in runic. For readers of Old English, the runic isn’t even that difficult. It’s like solving a fun puzzle. With a cheat sheet, you can make out the runes over Romulus’s name, “Romwalus,” which I’ve written in.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]606109[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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