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<p>[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 2719561, member: 83956"]Thanks all for these thoughtful replies. I'm glad you posted that argenteus, [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER]. To my eyes, that coin shows the tetrarchs sacrificing in front of a structure that the die engraver attempted to show "in the round." Those argenteus walls are meant to surround something; if a fire beacon is involved, then it is incorporated into a structure that seems designed to be protective of a delimited space.</p><p><br /></p><p>But this coin even elicits a question: Is the structure on the argenteus meant to be the <i>same </i>structure that appears on conventional "campgates"? Or are they two different structures? </p><p><br /></p><p>My gut tells me that the campgate is simply a <b>frontal view of the same structure the argenteus depicts</b> in some stylized fashion--a city or camp fortification with multiple towers. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]615612[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 2719561, member: 83956"]Thanks all for these thoughtful replies. I'm glad you posted that argenteus, [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER]. To my eyes, that coin shows the tetrarchs sacrificing in front of a structure that the die engraver attempted to show "in the round." Those argenteus walls are meant to surround something; if a fire beacon is involved, then it is incorporated into a structure that seems designed to be protective of a delimited space. But this coin even elicits a question: Is the structure on the argenteus meant to be the [I]same [/I]structure that appears on conventional "campgates"? Or are they two different structures? My gut tells me that the campgate is simply a [B]frontal view of the same structure the argenteus depicts[/B] in some stylized fashion--a city or camp fortification with multiple towers. [ATTACH=full]615612[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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