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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24881145, member: 26430"]Definitely not Alexandria but a very interesting type: that's a Baetyl in the temple, weird giant stones (sometimes meteorites) thought to be connected to the gods somehow.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baetylus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baetylus" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baetylus</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Very popular in Near Eastern religion, and appear especially on coins from the Severan period (but at least as early as Trajan and through the mid 3rd century). Elagabalus was very into them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most Severan coins aren't on RPC Online yet & I can't find any matches in ACSearch. I can't work out the legends. Hopefully someone else can. (Maybe Septimius Severus? Maybe Carrhae? Not sure.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24881145, member: 26430"]Definitely not Alexandria but a very interesting type: that's a Baetyl in the temple, weird giant stones (sometimes meteorites) thought to be connected to the gods somehow. [URL]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baetylus[/URL] Very popular in Near Eastern religion, and appear especially on coins from the Severan period (but at least as early as Trajan and through the mid 3rd century). Elagabalus was very into them. Most Severan coins aren't on RPC Online yet & I can't find any matches in ACSearch. I can't work out the legends. Hopefully someone else can. (Maybe Septimius Severus? Maybe Carrhae? Not sure.)[/QUOTE]
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