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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5246137, member: 110350&quot;]Thank you. That&#039;s a fascinating image.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, speaking of this particular stable (pun intended?) iconography, I think we need a sacrificial scene with a lighted altar involving a goat, in addition to the one with a heifer, in order to properly match it. (Pun intended.) Here&#039;s one I like, even though it didn&#039;t make my top 10 for this year:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, L. Pomponius Molo, AR Denarius, 97 BCE. Obv. Laureate head of Apollo right, L•POMPON• MOLO / Rev. Numa Pompilius [legendary second king of Rome after Romulus], holding <i>lituus</i> in left hand, standing right before a lighted altar, at which he is about to sacrifice a goat, which is led by a <i>victimarius</i> standing left, NVMA•POMPIL in exergue (MA and MP in monogram). Crawford 334/1, RSC I Pomponia 6 (ill.), BMCRR Italy 733, Sydenham 607, Sear RCV I 214 (ill.). 19.7 mm., 3,86 g. *[<i>Double die match to CNG E-Auction 157, Jan. 2007, Lot 149?</i>]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218438[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>*See RSC I at p. 77: “This type is an allusion to the supposed descent of the <i>gens</i> [Pomponia] from Pompo, one of the sons of Numa Pompilius, who is here represented as sacrificing to Apollo.” Crawford’s interpretation is the same; see Crawford Vol. I at p. 333.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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