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<p>[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 3057394, member: 51347"]<i><b><span style="color: #b30000"><b>TODAY you can post ANY Leader or a <u>COOL FEATURE</u> that start with the letter W,X,Y, and Z!</b></span></b></i></p><p><i><b><b> </b></b></i></p><p><i><b><b>COOL FEATURE...</b></b></i></p><p><i><b><b><br /></b></b></i></p><p><i><b><b>Xoanon</b></b></i></p><p><i><b><b>[ATTACH=full]766335[/ATTACH] </b></b></i></p><p>Campania CAPUA </p><p>AE Semuncia 216-211 </p><p>Obv: Head of Juno - </p><p>Rev: <b>Xoanon</b> </p><p>Capua was Hannibal's promised capital of Italia if Rome was destroyed </p><p>SCARCE</p><p>[ATTACH=full]766336[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>What is a <b><span style="color: #b30000">X</span>oanon</b>? </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plank_figure.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plank_figure.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Plank_figure.jpg/200px-Plank_figure.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>"Plank figure" of chalk, Early Cypriot III to Middle Cypriot I, 1900-1800 BCE (Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens).</p><p>A <b>xoanon</b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" rel="nofollow">/ˈzoʊ.ənɒn/</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:En-us-xoanon.ogg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:En-us-xoanon.ogg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/En-us-xoanon.ogg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/En-us-xoanon.ogg" rel="nofollow">listen</a>),<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoanon#cite_note-Dict-Pronounce-xoanon-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoanon#cite_note-Dict-Pronounce-xoanon-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" rel="nofollow">Greek</a>: ξόανον; plural: ξόανα <i>xoana</i>, from the verb ξέειν, <i>xeein</i>, to carve or scrape [wood]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoanon#cite_note-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoanon#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>) was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_period_in_Greece" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_period_in_Greece" rel="nofollow">Archaic</a> wooden <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_image" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_image" rel="nofollow">cult image</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece" rel="nofollow">Ancient Greece</a>. Classical Greeks associated such cult objects, whether <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconic" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconic" rel="nofollow">aniconic</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effigy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effigy" rel="nofollow">effigy</a>, with the legendary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus" rel="nofollow">Daedalus</a>. Many such cult images were preserved into historical times, though none are known to have survived to the modern day, except where their image was copied in stone or marble. In the 2nd century CE, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" rel="nofollow">Pausanias</a> described numerous xoana in his <i>Description of Greece</i>, notably the image of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera" rel="nofollow">Hera</a> in her temple at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samos_Island" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samos_Island" rel="nofollow">Samos</a>. "The statue of Samian Hera, as Aethilos [sic!] says, was a wooden beam at first, but afterwards, when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokles" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokles" rel="nofollow">Prokles</a> was ruler, it was humanized in form".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoanon#cite_note-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoanon#cite_note-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> In Pausanias' travels he never mentions seeing a xoanon of a mortal man.</p><p>- Wikipedia[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 3057394, member: 51347"][I][B][COLOR=#b30000][B]TODAY you can post ANY Leader or a [U]COOL FEATURE[/U] that start with the letter W,X,Y, and Z![/B][/COLOR][/B][/I] [I][B][B] COOL FEATURE... Xoanon [ATTACH=full]766335[/ATTACH] [/B][/B][/I] Campania CAPUA AE Semuncia 216-211 Obv: Head of Juno - Rev: [B]Xoanon[/B] Capua was Hannibal's promised capital of Italia if Rome was destroyed SCARCE [ATTACH=full]766336[/ATTACH] What is a [B][COLOR=#b30000]X[/COLOR]oanon[/B]? [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plank_figure.jpg'][IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Plank_figure.jpg/200px-Plank_figure.jpg[/IMG][/URL] "Plank figure" of chalk, Early Cypriot III to Middle Cypriot I, 1900-1800 BCE (Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens). A [B]xoanon[/B] ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English']/ˈzoʊ.ənɒn/[/URL] ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:En-us-xoanon.ogg'][IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png[/IMG][/URL] [URL='https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/En-us-xoanon.ogg']listen[/URL]),[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoanon#cite_note-Dict-Pronounce-xoanon-1'][1][/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language']Greek[/URL]: ξόανον; plural: ξόανα [I]xoana[/I], from the verb ξέειν, [I]xeein[/I], to carve or scrape [wood][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoanon#cite_note-2'][2][/URL]) was an [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_period_in_Greece']Archaic[/URL] wooden [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_image']cult image[/URL] of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece']Ancient Greece[/URL]. Classical Greeks associated such cult objects, whether [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconic']aniconic[/URL] or [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effigy']effigy[/URL], with the legendary [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus']Daedalus[/URL]. Many such cult images were preserved into historical times, though none are known to have survived to the modern day, except where their image was copied in stone or marble. In the 2nd century CE, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)']Pausanias[/URL] described numerous xoana in his [I]Description of Greece[/I], notably the image of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera']Hera[/URL] in her temple at [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samos_Island']Samos[/URL]. "The statue of Samian Hera, as Aethilos [sic!] says, was a wooden beam at first, but afterwards, when [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokles']Prokles[/URL] was ruler, it was humanized in form".[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoanon#cite_note-3'][3][/URL] In Pausanias' travels he never mentions seeing a xoanon of a mortal man. - Wikipedia[/QUOTE]
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