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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4953083, member: 110350&quot;]I find it very interesting! Here is my example of a Hadrian with the Canopus jar of Osiris on the reverse, although mine is from Hadrian&#039;s regnal year 11 as opposed to yours from year 3 (gamma). I&#039;m not sure I agree that this coin-type really demonstrates the Roman interest in Egyptian history: Osiris was still part of contemporary religion for people in Egypt, which still encompassed the traditional deities, in addition to syncretistic gods like Serapis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 11 (126/127 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from rear, ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ - ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹƐΒ / Rev. Canopic Jar of Osiris (a/k/a Osiris-Canopus Jar and Osiris-Hydreios)* right, surmounted by Atef crown above [ram?] horns; L ΕΝΔ - EKATΟΥ [= Year 11 spelled out]. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 5640 (2015); RPC III Online at&nbsp; <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5640" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5640" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5640</a>; Köln 939 [Geissen, A., <i>Katalog alexandrinischer Kaisermünzen</i>, <i>Köln</i>, Band II (Hadrian-Antoninus Pius) (Cologne, 1978, corrected reprint 1987)]; Milne 1205 [Milne, J., <i>A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum</i> (Oxford, 1933, reprints with supplement by Colin M. Kraay); Emmet 827.11 [Emmett, Keith, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i> (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Dattari (Savio) 1327 [Savio, A. ed., <i>Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini</i> (Trieste, 2007)].&nbsp; 25 mm., 13.41 g. (<i>Purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., 212th B<b>uy or </b>Bid Sale, August 2020<b>, </b>Lot 497.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1190640[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>*See <a href="https://egypt-museum.com/post/189683370661/osiris-canopus-jar#gsc.tab=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://egypt-museum.com/post/189683370661/osiris-canopus-jar#gsc.tab=0" rel="nofollow">https://egypt-museum.com/post/189683370661/osiris-canopus-jar#gsc.tab=0</a>, with photos of the Osiris-Canopus Jar from Hadrian’s Villa, now at the Vatican Museum, describing it as “A Canopic jar with the head of Osiris emerging from it. In the cult of Isis and Serapis, during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Osiris-Canopus jars (also known as Osiris-Hydreios) were carried by priests during processions. As they are solid, each symbolically carried water from the Nile, fertility that originated from the god Osiris, one of Egypt’s earliest fertility gods. Osiris-Canopus was named after the ancient Egyptian town of Canopus, on the western bank at the mouth of the westernmost branch of the Delta known as the Canopic or Heracleotic branch – not far from Alexandria. Roman Period, ca. 131-138 AD. Grey basalt, from Hadrian’s Villa. Now in the Vatican Museums (Gregoriano Egizio). 22852.”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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