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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4835811, member: 110504&quot;]Thanks, DonnaML, for your question.&nbsp; And for holding up as much of the tent for this whole forum as you do, on a routine basis.&nbsp; The one of Marc Antony is Just, Just, Just, Brilliant.&nbsp; Congrats on all of these.</p><p>And, um, I just paid for this.</p><p><a href="https://www.biddr.com/auctions/fsrcoin/browse?a=1215&amp;l=1293038" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.biddr.com/auctions/fsrcoin/browse?a=1215&amp;l=1293038" rel="nofollow">https://www.biddr.com/auctions/fsrcoin/browse?a=1215&amp;l=1293038</a></p><p>Here&#039;s the Wiki article (again, better than I could do: ) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nectanebo_II" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nectanebo_II" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nectanebo_II</a>.</p><p>Frank Robinson notes that the issue has been attributed to Persian occupation.&nbsp; But what I need about the Wiki article is how the gold issue uses hieroglyphics.&nbsp; ..What&#039;s the hieroglyphic for scales?&nbsp; --Someone could help with this.</p><p>...I need the whole arc from the late dynasties of Pharoahnic Egypt, to the Sudanese kingdoms of Napata and Meroe, to the Christian kingdoms in northern Sudan and Ethiopia /Aksum (/Axum; real academics use both spellings).&nbsp; And sporadically --more often aspirationally-- collect this stuff.&nbsp; Here&#039;s my one little amulet from the Meroitic period, bought from someone on UK ebay who had reliable provenance to a recent Christie&#039;s auction (with Lots of attendant documentation).[ATTACH=full]1169114[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Not a lot to look at, but it&#039;s c. 3rd c. BCE, with a stylized depiction of the ram&#039;s head of Amun.&nbsp; (With the horns, starting from the lower left.)&nbsp; Amun was kind of the patron god of the Napatan and Meroitic dynasties.</p><p>Now, what I&#039;m wishing I could find would be some kind of amulet or scarab, reliably attributed to the 25th Dynasty.&nbsp; ...Regarding Amun, you&#039;re invited to consider the transition in a certain 18th Dynasty regnal name (especially in reference to his father, Akhnaten), from &#039;Tut -Ankh- Aten&#039; to &#039;Tutankhamun.&#039;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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