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<p>[QUOTE="hotwheelsearl, post: 4631862, member: 75143"]Great Temple coin. I rather like contemporary engravings and reliefs of ancient temples.</p><p><br /></p><p>Contrary to the Greek temples with heavily statued pediments, many Roman temples went with either large bronze letters, or a variety of garlands, swags, and vegetation in the pediments. </p><p><br /></p><p>What I see in your coin reverse is a pediment with potentially a central vegetal wreath with swags on either side. The Victory acroteria are probably reasonably accurate, if somewhat smaller in real life.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do however doubt the cult statue was that large. We have some massive Roman cult statues (Constantine and Domitian, Madama Lucrezia(?) ), but I sort of doubt that there would have been a Olympian Zeus-scale deity in that temple.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hotwheelsearl, post: 4631862, member: 75143"]Great Temple coin. I rather like contemporary engravings and reliefs of ancient temples. Contrary to the Greek temples with heavily statued pediments, many Roman temples went with either large bronze letters, or a variety of garlands, swags, and vegetation in the pediments. What I see in your coin reverse is a pediment with potentially a central vegetal wreath with swags on either side. The Victory acroteria are probably reasonably accurate, if somewhat smaller in real life. I do however doubt the cult statue was that large. We have some massive Roman cult statues (Constantine and Domitian, Madama Lucrezia(?) ), but I sort of doubt that there would have been a Olympian Zeus-scale deity in that temple.[/QUOTE]
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