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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 5144022, member: 83845&quot;]Thanks!&nbsp;&nbsp; This makes much more sense.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for always reading and giving your informed feedback on so many of the threads here.&nbsp; You are a credit to the forum, my friend!&nbsp; You are obviously very knowledgeable in this collecting area (more so than me for sure!).</p><p><br /></p><p>To clarify what I was trying to get across with my original post, I think that both the existing statues and the coins showing a Reclining Nilus are referencing the same artistic tradition established by the original Hellenistic statue.&nbsp; What I mean is that the original statue forever linked Nilus shown in a reclining position with the nilometer measurement through the personifications of the pekheis.&nbsp; The &quot;IϚ&quot; shows up overwhelmingly on the Reclining Nilus reverses but much less often on other types.&nbsp; If it were an independent attribute or even a hopeful invocation you would think it would show up more often on the types where Nilus is the primary subject.</p><p><br /></p><p>To illustrate what I mean I went back and did a quick accounting through the CNG archives to quantify how often IϚ shows up on a sampling of reverse types.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207580[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207582[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>Reclining Nilus with &quot;16&quot; (Image courtesy of CNG)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>85% of the examples I found of the reclining type had the &quot;16&quot; called out either in the legend or near the genius like in this example.&nbsp; Some of the examples I did not count as having a &quot;16&quot; were worn enough that they may have originally so the percentage is probably higher.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207584[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>Seated Nilus without &quot;16&quot; (Image courtesy of CNG)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Only 10% (2 of 20) of the seated Nilus reverses had a &quot;16&quot; that was not associated with the date.&nbsp; It is interesting though that a lot of these seem to have been minted in RY 16.&nbsp; The example you posted, Z, is an example of a coin not in RY 16 that also does not have a &quot;16&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207585[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>Seated within Temple (Image courtesy of CNG)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>This is a cool reverse and seems to show the seated on a rock type in miniature.&nbsp; There is not a &quot;16&quot; noted on the design.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207588[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>Nilus bust right (Image courtesy of CNG)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>This type shows a bust of Nilus, usually with a cornucopia and genius but none of the examples showed &quot;16.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207587[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>Nilus on Hippo (Image courtesy of CNG)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>None of the very cool Hippo type showed a &quot;16&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207594[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>Seated Nilus with Euthenia (Image courtesy of CNG)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>None of the reverses with Euthenia or Alexandria (seated or standing) that I found had a &quot;16.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">.....................................</p><p><br /></p><p>So I guess in conclusion I am theorizing that the &quot;16 cubits&quot; is most closely linked to the reclining reverse specifically and that all of the other Nilus representations are drawing from different artistic inspirations in which the &quot;16&quot; was not necessarily an essential part.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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