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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7960367, member: 110504&quot;][USER=84905]@Tejas[/USER], bouncing directly off of your comments on [USER=120820]@Heliodromus[/USER]&#039; posts, another dynamic, more continuous with the earlier phases of the empire, is the remarkable level of pluralism the empire wound up with, not only demographically, but --big surprise-- culturally, religion emphatically included.&nbsp; Right, there&#039;s a mural of the Isis cult at Pompeii.</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/daily_life_gallery_04.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/daily_life_gallery_04.shtml" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/daily_life_gallery_04.shtml</a></p><p>The coidentification of the Hellenic and Roman pantheons, deity by deity, is well known; that of the Persian /Zoroastrian Mithra (very big with Constantine, and the contemporaneous Roman army) with Sol only slightly less so.&nbsp; Maybe Constantine was merely trying to cover as many bases as he could.</p><p>Your observation about the combination of the cross with pellets is something that never occurred to me.&nbsp; I have no idea how to interpret that, especially in reference to the 4th and 5th centuries.&nbsp; But crosses with four pellets are conspicuous in medieval coins from western Europe, c. 10th-13th centuries.&nbsp; --Conspicuous, Not commonplace.&nbsp; And ranging from early Norman issues to ecclesiastical ones of, for instance, Vienne, in southeastern France.&nbsp; ...The lack of cohesion between the minting authorities isn&#039;t helping here.&nbsp; But it&#039;s a cool correspondence for someone with the time and resources to investigate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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