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Message:: [QUOTE="Justin Lee, post: 7372672, member: 87404"]Does this one count? Isis holding her baby within distyle temple? Is that a statue or the real Isis they are meant to be capturing? [ATTACH=full]1284440[/ATTACH] Isis seated right on throne, holding infant Harpokrates; all within distyle Egyptian-style temple façade, disk in pediment; Emmett 1587.12. From CNG listing: Following Alexander's conquest of Egypt, the cult of Isis spread across the Mediterranean, with its popularity reaching its zenith in the Roman period, when the "goddess of a thousand names" became one of the Mediterranean's principal deities. I'll toss this one in for good measure.[ATTACH=full]1284439[/ATTACH] Syria, Trachonitis. Caesarea PaneasAE20, Struck after 65 ADDiva Poppaea Sabina, with Diva Claudia, died 65 and 63 AD, this coin deified the two.Obverse: DIVA POP-PAEA AVG, statue of Diva Poppaea seated left within distyle temple set on high podium.Reverse: DIVA CLA-VD NER F, statue of Diva Claudia standing left on basis within hexastyle belvedere set on high podium.References: RPC I 4846, Hendin 1270Size: 20mm, 5.0g Next: a coin from the Levant or Alexandria[/QUOTE]