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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7958907, member: 110350&quot;]12-hour rule. Back to sycretistic deities, like this coin of Serapis (a conflation of Osiris and the Apis bull, also linked to Hades and Zeus, among others):</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 18 (133/134 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from rear, ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ - ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ / Rev. Serapis enthroned left, wearing modius on head, holding scepter in left hand, and extending right hand toward Cerberus seated to left at his feet; L IH [= Year 18] in left field.&nbsp; RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 5871 (2015); RPC III Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5871" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5871" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5871</a>;&nbsp; BMC 16 Alexandria 620-621 at p. 74 &amp; PL. XIII [Poole, Reginald Stuart, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria</i> (London, 1892)]; Köln 1095 [Geissen, A., <i>Katalog alexandrinischer Kaisermünzen</i>, <i>Köln</i>, Band II (Hadrian-Antoninus Pius) (Cologne, 1978, corrected reprint 1987)]; Dattari (Savio) 1480 [Savio, A. ed., <i>Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini</i> (Trieste, 2007)]; Emmett 892.18 [Emmett, Keith, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i> (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Milne 1394 [Milne, J., <i>A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum</i> (Oxford, 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay 1971); K&amp;G 32.571 [Kampmann, Ursula &amp; Granschow, Thomas, <i>Die Münzen der römischen Münzstätte Alexandria</i>&nbsp; (2008)]. 25 mm., 12.42 g., 12 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1379692[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Next: Another syncretistic deity represented on a coin of Roman Egypt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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