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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 2729107, member: 83845&quot;][USER=44183]@stevex6[/USER] beat me to the punch and he&#039;s totally right.</p><p><br /></p><p>The horn was associated with the Egyptian god Ammon (or Amun) who is often shown with horns of a Ram.&nbsp; The horns represented the Gods masculinity.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]620121[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A major worship center for Ammon was at Siwa which I have pictured in my OP.&nbsp; The reason Alexander has horns on the coin is because when he visited Siwa after conquering Egypt he was hailed as Ammons son there.</p><p><br /></p><p>But why did Alexander (a Greek) want to be associated with an Egyptian god?&nbsp; Ammon was well known to the Greeks from a very early time due to the contact between the Greek colony Cyrene and Siwa.&nbsp; They equated him with Zues and so Alexander was rather modestly <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> claiming he was the son of Zues.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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