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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 25969932, member: 99456&quot;]<a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/water-god-from-a-dry-land" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/water-god-from-a-dry-land" rel="nofollow">[ATTACH=full]1652316[/ATTACH]</a></p><p>This coins from is from Savatra, Lycaonia - not a place known for lush agriculture and beautiful lakes and rivers - so what is going on with this fish and water god on the reverse of this coin from Antoninus Pius (r. AD 138-161)? Perhaps this is a land fish? Scientists in Australia found <b>walking sharks</b> that could walk and survive a short time out of water...see: <i>Marine and Freshwater Research</i> 71(9) 1107-1117 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1071/MF19163" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://doi.org/10.1071/MF19163" rel="nofollow">https://doi.org/10.1071/MF19163</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1652320[/ATTACH]</p><p>This area around Savatra is known for hypersalinated lakes : as seen in this photo of Lake Tatta (modern Lake Tuz) - a crusty salt lake (<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Tuz,_Turkey_(Unsplash_O0uCm1WLnA0).jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Tuz,_Turkey_(Unsplash_O0uCm1WLnA0).jpg" rel="nofollow">photo from 2017 via Wikimedia Commons</a>).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1652319[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>More in my latest notes:</b> <a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/water-god-from-a-dry-land" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/water-god-from-a-dry-land" rel="nofollow">https://www.sullacoins.com/post/water-god-from-a-dry-land</a>&nbsp; </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Post any coins of fish, coins from Lycaonia, coins of Savatra or anything else you find interesting or entertaining.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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