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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8252575, member: 110350&quot;]In terms of losing out repeatedly, I&#039;ve bid several times on nice examples of the M. Volteius snake biga, and haven&#039;t come close to winning yet.&nbsp; Someday, perhaps!</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the male vs. female Dacian distinction, I&#039;m not entirely sure I agree with [USER=26430]@Curtis[/USER]&#039;s conclusion that the mourning &quot;scarecrow&quot; Dacian sitting on a shield above a falx is intended to be seen as female, given the entirely male clothing and the presence of weapons. The breasts aren&#039;t exactly Junoesque on my example -- or the well-preserved one posted by [USER=80952]@ambr0zie[/USER] -- although that could just be the effect of the apparently long period of malnutrition. (It&#039;s a wonder that the Romans took two Dacian wars to defeat them if they all looked like that!) Besides, there are lots of example on ancient coins of unambiguously male figures with what we would see as unusually prominent chests. Like some of the Apollos on the reverses of Seleucid coins, or this Nilus:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454231[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree about the Trajan Decius personification of Dacia almost certainly being female given the robe she&#039;s wearing. My example:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454232[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s impossible to tell with my example of DAC CAP, given that the captive is unbound but is sitting on a pile of weapons:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454236[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, what about the two Parthian captives, both unbound, on this denarius of Septimius Severus? (RIC IV-1 176, RSC III 370, Sear RCV (1988 ed.) 1767 [not in Millennium Edition], BMCRE 356.) If I had to guess, I&#039;d say that the one on the left is female and the one on the right is male. It looks like the design may be loosely based on the Vespasian example posted by [USER=26430]@Curtis[/USER].</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454238[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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