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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2810690, member: 10461&quot;]That&#039;s the most facial detail I can recall seeing on Mars on one of these.</p><p><br /></p><p>Quite the physique, too.&nbsp; He&#039;d look very masculine if he weren&#039;t so delicately walking on his tiptoes!</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s interesting how this &quot;bound captive&quot; motif seems to depict more of an <i>object</i> than a person - one seldom sees very human features or faces on the captives - at least on the coins I&#039;ve seen.&nbsp; But I suppose that shouldn&#039;t be terribly surprising, since captives in the ancient world must&#039;ve been considered just that... <i>objects</i> as much or more than they were <i>people</i>.&nbsp; They seem to always be shown so much smaller than life-size, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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