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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 3945540, member: 103829&quot;]Dear [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p>Many thanks for your interesting article. The coins of Alexandreia have long been a specialty of mine. The types with the grazing horse are among the standard types of Alexandreia. But if you take a closer look at these types, you will see that it is not just a grazing horse. It is a horse that has found something. I do not know what it is about. It Looks like a plant.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1039835[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This can be seen especially well in the depictions with a shepherd who does not simply guard the horse, but observes exactly how the horse has found something. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1039836[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So I suspect that these representations belong to a founding myth of Alexandreia. The horse, closely watched by the shepherd, has found something, and this is where Alelexandreia is supposed to be founded.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other founder type of Alexandreia is the type with the eagle and the bull&#039;s head. It strongly reminds of the founder mythology of Antiochia ad Orontes where the eagle kidnaps the bull&#039;s head from the altar and then drops it where Zeus wants the new city to be founded. (Bellinger, Troy: The Coins)</p><p><br /></p><p>If this is true, then Alexandria has two different foundation myths.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jochen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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