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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SeptimusT, post: 8140712, member: 91240&quot;]Best of luck to your son, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER]! It is indeed a lot of work, but so far I have (mostly) preferred it to the work I was doing before...</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the figure on the Carrhae coin, maybe that&#039;s worthy of a thread of its own. There are many examples of this issue and similar ones in the RPC database, and some of the more distinct ones lead me to suspect that the &#039;tail&#039; may in fact be some sort of garment; it also looks like the object he is holding isn&#039;t over his shoulder, but held aloft by his arm, almost like some sort of projectile. Most Marsyas depictions seem more stooped. But I am not too certain, which is what makes it so interesting! </p><p><br /></p><p>The primary cult at Carrhae appears to have been devoted to Sin, a Mesopotamian lunar god. Some Roman accounts say that &#039;Deus Lunus&#039; was worshipped there.</p><p><br /></p><p>From RPC:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1419135[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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