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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24708837, member: 26430&quot;]That&#039;s a great subcollection. I&#039;ve been keeping an eye for one of the ones with a captive, (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11233954" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11233954" rel="nofollow">nearly</a>) always with wolf &amp; twins in the pediment.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m curious about this:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s interesting that, while representing the same building, they would have varied the pediments, acroteria, and other decorative features (and even the number of columns). Maybe a general representation was enough to get the idea across. Maybe it wasn&#039;t yet finished, so there weren&#039;t any actual decorations to copy yet? Or the engravers just might not know?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>The Same Temple? </b>I like this one because it turned out to be David Sear&#039;s <i>RCV III</i> 8963 Plate Coin (didn&#039;t know when I bought it). </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s described as &quot;Hadrian&#039;s Temple of Venus and Roma.&quot; </p><p>I&#039;m guess that would be the same temple that later burned down and was rebuilt by Maxentius, above?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1579073[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>From Thessalonica, a Pythian Games issue of Philip II</b> (the second local Kabeiric Pythian Games, not the main one in Delphi; the first Kabeiric Pythiad was held under Gordian III).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a temple coin that I particularly enjoy for all the details of the roofing, pediments, etc.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1579072[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The temple is for Kabeiros (other types show him inside) -- probably an actual temple in the &quot;Sacred Area&quot; in Thessaloniki that&#039;s been excavated for many decades. (There are inscriptions indicating this temple existed, though it hasn&#039;t been found.) </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m very curious what the curved features are at all the corners. At first, I thought ivory tusks / rhyton-drinking horns (attributes of Kabeiros), but then I started noticing them on temples depicted all over the empire, so back to square one....</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Of historical interest</i>: It seems to me that biblical accounts of the worship of Dionysus at Thessalonica were probably actually referring to the (related) local cult of Kabeiros, which practiced similar bacchanalian rites involving alcohol and carousing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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