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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 5405071, member: 57495"]Fascinating coin and a great score, Pavlos. Thanks also for the excellent writeup.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sirius was important to the Ancient Egyptians as well, as it marked the coming of the annual Nile flooding. It was also central to their 1460-year Sothic cycle of dating. Sirius was personified as the goddess Sopdet, who became conflated with Isis in the Ptolemaic period. The iconography of the dog was worked in by depicting Isis-Sothis riding a dog. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1233777[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b></p><p>AE Drachm. 16.68g, 32.6mm. EGYPT, Alexandria, RY 21(AD 157/8). Emmett 1593.21; RPC Online Temp 15227. O: Laureate head with traces of drapery right. R: Isis-Sothis, holding cornucopia and scepter, seated facing and riding a dog right who wears a radiate crown and is looking back at her; below, L KA.</p><p><i>Ex Robert L. Grover Collection of Roman-Egyptian Coinage, previously held by the Art Institute of Chicago (1982.1965)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 5405071, member: 57495"]Fascinating coin and a great score, Pavlos. Thanks also for the excellent writeup. Sirius was important to the Ancient Egyptians as well, as it marked the coming of the annual Nile flooding. It was also central to their 1460-year Sothic cycle of dating. Sirius was personified as the goddess Sopdet, who became conflated with Isis in the Ptolemaic period. The iconography of the dog was worked in by depicting Isis-Sothis riding a dog. [ATTACH=full]1233777[/ATTACH] [B]ANTONINUS PIUS[/B] AE Drachm. 16.68g, 32.6mm. EGYPT, Alexandria, RY 21(AD 157/8). Emmett 1593.21; RPC Online Temp 15227. O: Laureate head with traces of drapery right. R: Isis-Sothis, holding cornucopia and scepter, seated facing and riding a dog right who wears a radiate crown and is looking back at her; below, L KA. [I]Ex Robert L. Grover Collection of Roman-Egyptian Coinage, previously held by the Art Institute of Chicago (1982.1965)[/I][/QUOTE]
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