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<p>[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 4684260, member: 80783"]Thanks, Al <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. The story of Hostilian´s sister was obviously "pulled out of the hat" by some Renaissance hobby historian. It has been indicriminately repeated over and over in coin in catalogues and on the internet without anybody being able to quote an ancient source.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apart from that, it would have been impossible for Gallus do condemn the memory of Decius and his sons if they were his daughter in law's family! Also it would have been unlikely that there is no numismatic or epigraphic mention of a wife of Volusian.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I agree. It neither looks like Hostilian nor would it be likely that he is pictured due to the fact that seems to have been erased from the records by Gallus as soon as he had died.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-great-ludovisi-sarcophagus.301896/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-great-ludovisi-sarcophagus.301896/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-great-ludovisi-sarcophagus.301896/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There is also a conflicting hypothesis that Hostilian was cremated in Viminacium where a decade ago Serbian archeologists claimed to have found his mausoleum. No result of the DNA tests that were announced then were ever published however and the current webpage of the excarvation site no longer makes such a connection even though Wikipedia still does.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 4684260, member: 80783"]Thanks, Al :). The story of Hostilian´s sister was obviously "pulled out of the hat" by some Renaissance hobby historian. It has been indicriminately repeated over and over in coin in catalogues and on the internet without anybody being able to quote an ancient source. Apart from that, it would have been impossible for Gallus do condemn the memory of Decius and his sons if they were his daughter in law's family! Also it would have been unlikely that there is no numismatic or epigraphic mention of a wife of Volusian. I agree. It neither looks like Hostilian nor would it be likely that he is pictured due to the fact that seems to have been erased from the records by Gallus as soon as he had died. [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-great-ludovisi-sarcophagus.301896/[/URL] There is also a conflicting hypothesis that Hostilian was cremated in Viminacium where a decade ago Serbian archeologists claimed to have found his mausoleum. No result of the DNA tests that were announced then were ever published however and the current webpage of the excarvation site no longer makes such a connection even though Wikipedia still does.[/QUOTE]
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