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<p>[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 4800235, member: 80783"]You have one mean hippo there, Donna! There must have been different celators responsible for the naturalistic, plumpfaced hippos often seen on Sestertii, and the more abstract, fierce creatures sometimes showing long, tooth-armed snouts featured on many Antoniniani.</p><p>It was the latter that definitely inspired most medieval and Renaissance artists:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1165710[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 4800235, member: 80783"]You have one mean hippo there, Donna! There must have been different celators responsible for the naturalistic, plumpfaced hippos often seen on Sestertii, and the more abstract, fierce creatures sometimes showing long, tooth-armed snouts featured on many Antoniniani. It was the latter that definitely inspired most medieval and Renaissance artists: [ATTACH=full]1165710[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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