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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 3373577, member: 103829&quot;]Dear benhur767!</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for your posting. I love it!</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a very interesting thread. And I was engaged in the question &quot;club or cypress&quot; a long time. From Nikopolis ad Istrum I have coins were the so-called club doesn&#039;t match the picture of clubs as we know them from coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin #1</p><p>Nikopolis, Elagabal, Hristova/Hoeft/Jekov (2018) 8.26.8.12</p><p>[ATTACH=full]894865[/ATTACH]</p><p>Here the object on the rev. doesn&#039;t look like a usual club. There are too much knobs, looking like the &quot;knobbly cypress pinecones&quot; as in the image above.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin #2:</p><p>Nikopolis, Elagabal, HrHJ (2018) 8.26.14.10</p><p>[ATTACH=full]894867[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here the depiction is very different. It looks more like a plant, a twig with lateral sprouts. And exactly that Pick (AMNG) writes of the same type for Macrinus: &quot;Stalk of a plant(?)&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I have found a citation in H.R. Baldus Uranius Antoninus, 1971, p.274, note 56:</p><p>&quot;...in his left arm the High Priest carried a Cypress twig, often misunderstood as club (cf. the famous Palmyrene altar in the Musei Capitolini/Rome: The Birth of&nbsp; Malakbel from a Cypress&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Malakbel was the Palmyrene sun god. And voila, there we have the connection to the sun god cult in Emesa!</p><p><br /></p><p>The Cypress tree is known as an age-old symbol for immortality and matches in this way better an religious Cult.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jochen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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