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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8316847, member: 128351&quot;]My only Zeus Kasios coin is the same one as [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER] &#039;s. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472608[/ATTACH] </p><p>It is a Syrian coin, minted in Seleucia Pieria near Antioch, and represents the baetyl of Zeus Kasios under its baldachin. Typically Syrian... </p><p><br /></p><p>But the Zeus Kasios of Pelusium was very different. We see thanks to Achilles Tatius that his statue, visible in the very temple the Egyptians are now exploring, was a young Zeus (looking like Apollo, i.e. beardless with long hair like an ephebe) holding a pomegranate in his extended arm. Coins minted in Alexandria represented this statue (or the mystical pomegranate) : </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472612[/ATTACH]&nbsp; </p><p>two others, one of Hadrian, one of Claudius Gothicus (not my coins of course)!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472613[/ATTACH] </p><p>On the Hadrianic coin with the rev. legend [ΠH]ΛOV L IA, we can see what Achilles Tatius meant : a Zeus who looks more like Apollo because he is young. His hem-hem crown is an attribute of Harpocrates (Horus) : this young Zeus was an hellenization of Horus, the child-god... </p><p><br /></p><p>Does anybody on CT have examples of these coins with the Zeus Kasios of Pelusium?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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