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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 3089945, member: 83845&quot;]Thanks Ryro and sweet new acquisition! I&#039;m glad you came across my old thread as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was thinking about this coin portrait a few weeks ago when I visited Pompeii and Naples where the Alexander mosaic was discovered. When I finish loading my photos I&#039;ll upload my photos of the house it was found in.&nbsp; Here is the original mosaic as displayed in Naples.&nbsp; It is thought to be a copy of a painting by Philoxenus of Eretria made for the Diodochi Cassander.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]779471[/ATTACH]</p><p>Modern interpretation of the original Greek painting - Naples</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]779472[/ATTACH]</p><p>The Alexander Mosaic - ca 100 BC</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]779495[/ATTACH]</p><p>Here&#039;s a lesser known depiction of Alexander shown, wild hair and all, about to marry Roxana - from Pompeii</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]779486[/ATTACH]</p><p>This one I managed to photograph in profile.&nbsp; It&#039;s a bust of Alexander copied from a Greek original during the time of Hadrian.&nbsp; It was in the wonderful National Museum attached to the baths of Diocletian. That Alexander is everywhere in Italy once you start looking for him <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ...much more so than I remember from Greece actually[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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