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<p>[QUOTE="Spargrodan, post: 6490820, member: 109905"]Great coin never seen that reverse on Julia Domna before.</p><p>Yes it's portraying Athena Promachos, the 9 meter tall bronze colossus that stod next to Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athen. Earlier variants, like the Syracuse AE posted by [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER] most probably inspired the Julia Domna version. The statue was later moved to Constantinople and was unfortunately destroyed during the fourth crusade. The statue in the National Archaeological Museum in Naple is an Roman imitation of the Athenian bronze colossus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Spargrodan, post: 6490820, member: 109905"]Great coin never seen that reverse on Julia Domna before. Yes it's portraying Athena Promachos, the 9 meter tall bronze colossus that stod next to Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athen. Earlier variants, like the Syracuse AE posted by [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER] most probably inspired the Julia Domna version. The statue was later moved to Constantinople and was unfortunately destroyed during the fourth crusade. The statue in the National Archaeological Museum in Naple is an Roman imitation of the Athenian bronze colossus.[/QUOTE]
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