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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3022344, member: 56859&quot;]Like Doug, I thought (perhaps wrongly?) that the early portraits of Domitian were likely more realistic and that vanity led to the less Bluto-y later portraits.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villainstournament/images/7/7f/Bluto.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150919011800" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, maybe what we consider handsome today was different then.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bluto did clean up pretty well though... here he shaved and wore a tux for this fancy date with Olive Oyl <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Maybe Domitian was just prettying himself up to impress Domitia.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.mtcnet.net/~bierly/blkiss2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have an unusual portrait of Domitian but here he is with an unusual portrayal of Isis:&nbsp; Isis and her armless torso melded with a serpent, as Isis-Thermouthis.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domitianobol-isisthermouthis-rt-jpg.544938/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Domitian</b></p><p>AE obol, 20 mm, 5 gm</p><p>regnal year 10, CE 90/91</p><p>Obv: laureate head right</p><p>Rev: AVTKAIΣAPOMITIANOΣΣEBΓEPM; Isis-Thermouthis standing right; LI in right field</p><p>Ref: Emmett 321.10, R5; RPC 2593; Geissen 376[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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