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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3050727, member: 19463"]My favorite Nicopolis is this Geta assarion (AE16x18)with Apollo Sauroctonos showing a more clear than usual lizard on the tree.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]763378[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My Septimius Sauroctonos is larger AE25 and shows the variation where Apollo intends to dart the lizard rather than catch it in hand as on most including the Louvre statue. I suspect the city had a copy of Sauroctonos since they used the type so much but I can not explain the two types.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]763375[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>For those not familiar with it, Apollo Sauroctonos (lizard slayer) is a statue by 4th century BC master Praxiteles known today only from several Roman copies. The most famous is in the Louvre. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Sauroctonos" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Sauroctonos" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Sauroctonos</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3050727, member: 19463"]My favorite Nicopolis is this Geta assarion (AE16x18)with Apollo Sauroctonos showing a more clear than usual lizard on the tree. [ATTACH=full]763378[/ATTACH] My Septimius Sauroctonos is larger AE25 and shows the variation where Apollo intends to dart the lizard rather than catch it in hand as on most including the Louvre statue. I suspect the city had a copy of Sauroctonos since they used the type so much but I can not explain the two types. [ATTACH=full]763375[/ATTACH] For those not familiar with it, Apollo Sauroctonos (lizard slayer) is a statue by 4th century BC master Praxiteles known today only from several Roman copies. The most famous is in the Louvre. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Sauroctonos[/url][/QUOTE]
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