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<p>[QUOTE="Voulgaroktonou, post: 4193545, member: 84047"]Wonderful posts and great photos. Thanks! Just want to note that "gestus" is a Latin, not German word, although I am sure that the Germans have appropriated it as a technical term in their scholarship. Its root meaning is "bearing", or "movement" of the body, often especially in reference to the hand. Perhaps its most salient interpretation is to express the act of speech. One of my favorite non-ancient coins has a clear example of this: a silver carlino of Charles I, King of Sicily, Count of Provence and Anjou, and titular king of Jerusalem, 1278-85. The reverse depicts the Annunciation, with the Archangel Gabriel addressing the Virgin: " Ave gratia plena, dominus tecum" (hail, [you] full of grace, the Lord [is] with you)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1076409[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Voulgaroktonou, post: 4193545, member: 84047"]Wonderful posts and great photos. Thanks! Just want to note that "gestus" is a Latin, not German word, although I am sure that the Germans have appropriated it as a technical term in their scholarship. Its root meaning is "bearing", or "movement" of the body, often especially in reference to the hand. Perhaps its most salient interpretation is to express the act of speech. One of my favorite non-ancient coins has a clear example of this: a silver carlino of Charles I, King of Sicily, Count of Provence and Anjou, and titular king of Jerusalem, 1278-85. The reverse depicts the Annunciation, with the Archangel Gabriel addressing the Virgin: " Ave gratia plena, dominus tecum" (hail, [you] full of grace, the Lord [is] with you) [ATTACH=full]1076409[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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