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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4965924, member: 57495"]Definitely. I've made the same mistake on more than one occasion when just looking at the pictures and not noticing the denomination or dimensions. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks! The pediment detail was a major attraction for me. It's interesting that the Temple depicted on the earlier sestertii of Vespasian show a pediment decoration that's quite different from Titus's (and also a hexastyle rather than tetrastyle facade). Coin below, not mine: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193598[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The arrangement of Jupiter enthroned surrounded by other deities and figures more closely resembles what can be seen on the 'Marcus Aurelius sacrificing before the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus' bas relief panel below:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193600[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding this, Curtis Clay notes: "It is difficult to decide whether these differences represent actual sculptural changes made in Titus' reconstruction of the temple, or are merely inventions of Titus' type designer without basis in reality."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4965924, member: 57495"]Definitely. I've made the same mistake on more than one occasion when just looking at the pictures and not noticing the denomination or dimensions. :D Thanks! The pediment detail was a major attraction for me. It's interesting that the Temple depicted on the earlier sestertii of Vespasian show a pediment decoration that's quite different from Titus's (and also a hexastyle rather than tetrastyle facade). Coin below, not mine: [ATTACH=full]1193598[/ATTACH] The arrangement of Jupiter enthroned surrounded by other deities and figures more closely resembles what can be seen on the 'Marcus Aurelius sacrificing before the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus' bas relief panel below: [ATTACH=full]1193600[/ATTACH] Regarding this, Curtis Clay notes: "It is difficult to decide whether these differences represent actual sculptural changes made in Titus' reconstruction of the temple, or are merely inventions of Titus' type designer without basis in reality."[/QUOTE]
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