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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8239685, member: 110350&quot;][USER=101013]@Limes[/USER], I love your lighthouse coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding your question, I was going to ask the same thing. But almost every source I looked at seemed to have a somewhat different answer as to whose statue was on top of the Pharos:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/paganism/pharos.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/paganism/pharos.html" rel="nofollow">https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/paganism/pharos.html</a>, consisting of quotations from ancient authors, indicates that the statue portrayed Zeus Soter (the Savior).</p><p><br /></p><p>The entry at Worldhistory.org also says that &quot;(mostly) agreed upon is the presence of a statue of Zeus Soter on the top.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The Encyclopedia Britannica says that the statue &quot;possibly represent[ed] either Alexander the Great or Ptolemy I Soter in the form of the sun god Helios.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The entry at cs.mcgill.ca says that &quot;A statue of Poseidon stood atop the tower during the Roman period.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Wikipedia says that the statue was of &quot;Poseidon or Zeus.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom line is that nobody seems entirely certain as to the statue&#039;s identity.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone has more definitive information, I&#039;d love to hear from you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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