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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4945533, member: 110504"]Thank you, [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER]. ...So I only missed it by half a dozen dynasties ...without looking, that's, what, maybe half a millennium.</p><p>...Nope, the Ramessid (sp?) reliefs are the ones I'm most familiar with, effectively by default.</p><p>--Except, No, I compounded this by misreading 'Ptolemy XII' as the XIIth Pharaohnic <i>Dynasty. </i>...From here, this is the point at which 'the British Public Demand (sic) to Know.' From something secondary, but responsible, in easy range of the desk, it looks like I missed it by more like a millennium and change.</p><p>...Except, from this point, I'd be wanting to find the more strictly Pharaohnic precedent for that rendering of rams' horns. Only since the process of alteration, along with appropriation, is already happening as of the Ptolemies.</p><p> ...But in the present, numismatic context, your point is duly nailed in place.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4945533, member: 110504"]Thank you, [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER]. ...So I only missed it by half a dozen dynasties ...without looking, that's, what, maybe half a millennium. ...Nope, the Ramessid (sp?) reliefs are the ones I'm most familiar with, effectively by default. --Except, No, I compounded this by misreading 'Ptolemy XII' as the XIIth Pharaohnic [I]Dynasty. [/I]...From here, this is the point at which 'the British Public Demand (sic) to Know.' From something secondary, but responsible, in easy range of the desk, it looks like I missed it by more like a millennium and change. ...Except, from this point, I'd be wanting to find the more strictly Pharaohnic precedent for that rendering of rams' horns. Only since the process of alteration, along with appropriation, is already happening as of the Ptolemies. ...But in the present, numismatic context, your point is duly nailed in place.[/QUOTE]
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