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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4876139, member: 110504&quot;][USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER], the coins are great, especially the exceptional one of Elymais.&nbsp; But you&#039;re on a really serious line of inquiry.</p><p>Notably in the case of pre-Christian Aksumites, the crescent and star motif is still mysterious.&nbsp; Along with Sasanian issues (associated with Zoroastrianism), I was hoping to find some numismatic precedent in the Himyarite ones.&nbsp; That didn&#039;t pan out.&nbsp; ...Even though Phillipson notes that &quot;prior to the [...] advent of Christianity, it seems that a form or forms of polytheistic belief-system analogous -- but by no means identical -- to that known [...] in southern Arabia prevailed also in the northern Horn&quot; (<u>Foundations of an African Civilization</u>, 2012/4, p. 91).</p><p>Independently of whether that was on your agenda, you&#039;re Onto some stuff here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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