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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2108418, member: 42773&quot;]Inasmuch as the Nabataeans appropriated Greek designs into their coinage, yes. But the Nabataean eagle is more closely modeled after the eagle on the Tyrian shekel. Malichus I minted the first truly Nabataean coinage, and it was modeled after the standards of the Tyrian shekel in both weight and fineness. See <a href="http://www.nabataeannumismatics.com/MalichusIsilver.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nabataeannumismatics.com/MalichusIsilver.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> page on my website.</p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting bit of circumstantial evidence for the eagle as a powerful Nabataean religious symbol occurs in the history of Herod the Great. He erected an eagle at the Temple of Jerusalem. (Herod was half-Nabataean, half-Judaean, and evidently had no issue mixing religious symbols.) Putting an eagle on the Jewish temple so incensed both the Pharisees and Sadducees that an angry mob tore it down. When Herod found out, heads rolled.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s difficult to believe the eagle wasn&#039;t an important religious symbol to the Nabataeans, or else, why would the Judaeans have made such uproar over its erection at the Temple of Jerusalem? It wasn&#039;t merely a decoration, but an idol of heathen foreigners.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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