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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2041108, member: 19463&quot;]I don&#039;t know when this mosaic was done but it is a great use of the solo theta to indicate which gladiators were deceased (thanatos).&nbsp; The closest thing we have today is the number 13 which is not nearly as feared as it once was.&nbsp; The town I grew up in had numbered streets but the one between 12th and 14th was called Main Street.&nbsp; The hotel downtown was over 13 floors tall but there was no 13th floor in their layout. </p><p><br /></p><p>This theta avoidance was one of the big clues that tipped off the old error of the Anonymous Pagan coins to Julian II as they had long been attributed.&nbsp; Starting about the time Constantine openly supported Christians, the theta was reintroduced into the officina scheme.&nbsp; By the time of Julian II, no coins had a work around nine but the Pagans have E+delta.&nbsp; There are Julian coins from Antioch with officina theta but I do not have one.&nbsp; It is on my want list but not really expected to be added.</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=325065" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=325065" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=325065</a></p><p>There are no bronzes of Julian Augustus numbered that high but there are falling horseman as Caesar according to RIC that I might find someday.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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