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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4938814, member: 110350&quot;][USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER], your coins are terrific.</p><p><br /></p><p>In terms of what Jupiter is sitting on, perhaps it&#039;s sort of like a Rorschach test, but I still see a squarish seat with a front edge, at least on my die.&nbsp; Here&#039;s another photo of the reverse that I just took; if you zoom in on it, it shouldn&#039;t blur too much and I think perhaps you&#039;ll be able to see what I&#039;m looking at more clearly than in the other photos I posted.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1186980[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>First, I don&#039;t think that his seat or throne or whatever it is looks much like the modern one-legged camp stool of which you posted a photo. I wonder if there are any drawings of Roman camp stools. In this one, as in all the examples I&#039;ve seen, there&#039;s one visible and very ornate leg -- directly to the left of Jupiter&#039;s long scepter -- that&#039;s off to the right of his seat instead of extending from its bottom center as in the camp stool photo you posted. This leg is undoubtedly part of the seat, because in my example you can clearly see the metal bar extending upwards from the leg and curving around behind Jupiter, serving as a very low backrest against which he&#039;s leaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, what I&#039;m seeing as the front edge of his seat -- again, it doesn&#039;t seem to be present in the other examples people have posted -- is the thick black line angling upwards to the left from Jupiter&#039;s left leg, just below his knee. There&#039;s another thick black line angling upwards a bit less sharply to the right from his left leg, also at or just below his knee. Even though it doesn&#039;t line up precisely with the line angling off to the left, I see it as a possible side edge of his seat.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, when the thick black line going left reaches Jupiter&#039;s right leg, I see an edge curving around and going under his very skinny right leg, which seems to go over and under that edge before emerging at the bottom right as his right foot and ankle. (Which, of course, would make his right leg about twice as long as his left leg, but hey, who&#039;s complaining!)</p><p><br /></p><p>So perhaps it&#039;s a one-legged seat, but I do see it as squarish in shape and partially visible, rather than round and completely hidden under Jupiter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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