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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2785004, member: 83956&quot;]I&#039;d like to learn a little bit about the &quot;holding the head of X&quot; iconography. To my modern sensibility, it seems a little creepy, as if one is holding a severed head. But I wonder what relation this iconography has to the &quot;parade of ancestors&quot; tradition in which patrician Romans walked on solemn occasions carrying the busts of ancestors, as pictured. Are we to think that these figures on the coins are carrying similar sculpted busts of Serapis, etc. to suggest similar veneration or &quot;family&quot; connection? Certainly that&#039;s not an actual head...or is it?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]645281[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Image source: <a href="http://slideplayer.com/slide/5294381/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://slideplayer.com/slide/5294381/" rel="nofollow">http://slideplayer.com/slide/5294381/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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