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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2933682, member: 84744&quot;]I got to thinking that the two bronzes (mine and Parthicus&#039;s) might be related, in that they might both be depicting an aerial view of something.&nbsp; There are several related things my coin might be depicting:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) The Etemenanki ziggurat in Babylon, dedicated to Marduk and important during the Persian period (this was the first relevant image I found that got me thinking along these lines):</p><p><img src="http://www.spentaproductions.com/images/Cyrus_the_Great_Screen.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>2) A form of Achaemenid Zoroastrian(?) fire altar (on the right below):</p><p><img src="http://www.iranicaonline.org/uploads/files/623plate2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>3) A similar Achaemenid structure which may be a fire temple or a tomb:</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Naghsh-e_rostam%2C_Irán%2C_2016-09-24%2C_DD_14.jpg/1200px-Naghsh-e_rostam%2C_Irán%2C_2016-09-24%2C_DD_14.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>4) and finally the tomb of Cyrus the Great (missing the stairs):</p><p><img src="https://easygoiran.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/pasargadshirazz-600x600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>In short, the pattern of concentric squares with a line jutting out corresponds well to an aerial view of a stepped structure with a main stairway. Such a structure clearly had a religious and/or funerary significance to the Achaemenids, and may also have linked them with earlier Babylonian traditions.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems at least a reasonable possibility, no?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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