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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3875061, member: 56859&quot;]<b>Fantastic!!</b>&nbsp; I look forward to reading that book and appreciate the expanded information about urnulae.&nbsp; We had fun hypothesizing about what they are when discussing the reverse of this coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/nerodiobol-dattari-vase-e153-jpg.726813/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Nero</b></p><p>Regnal year 14 (CE 67/8)</p><p>AE diobol; 27 mm, 10.9 gm</p><p>Obv: NEPΩKΛAVK[AIΣΣEBΓEPA]; laureate head right</p><p>Rev: L - IΔ; &quot;vase&quot; (Emmett), or &quot;oinochoe&quot; per others (others are probably correct)</p><p>Ref: Dattari-Savio Pl. 1, 2 (<i>this coin</i>); Dattari cf 286; RPC 5322; Emmett 153.14; Poole (BM, 1892) cf 188?</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/more-to-this-than-meets-the-eye.309276/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/more-to-this-than-meets-the-eye.309276/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/more-to-this-than-meets-the-eye.309276/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>We were disappointed to learn it <i>isn&#039;t</i> a bong Nero used for smoking Silphium <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/nerobonged-gif.726983/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;canopic jar&quot; depictions are interesting.&nbsp; Apparently they are not truly jars or vessels with accessible interior but rather statues mis-labeled in modern times.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a Hadrian tetradrachm with very detailed canopic &quot;jar&quot; which looks like it may have been modeled after the Osiris-Canopus from Hadrian&#039;s villa, although the headdress is slightly different:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cointalk.com%2Fproxy.php%3Fimage%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cointalk.com%252Fproxy.php%253Fimage%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.cointalk.com%25252Fproxy.php%25253Fimage%25253Dhttps%2525253A%2525252F%2525252Fstatic.wixstatic.com%2525252Fmedia%2525252Fae43f8_d6c50b3a3ca24add9f6d16be88795bdd%2525257Emv2.jpg%252526hash%25253D80a8cdf4731d3456bbd841c38bf3c659%2526hash%253Dc55bcc3599bbc6113a2210076d5713de%26hash%3D953e87960814e191d0dbecec9f68b296&amp;hash=278ed2966ae2373718c4c4a4e0fff802" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian</b></p><p>year 11, CE 126/7</p><p>billon tetradrachm, 26 mm, 12.6 gm</p><p>Obv: AVTKAITPAI AΔPIACEB; laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind</p><p>Rev: L ENΔ EKATOV: Canopus of Osiris right</p><p>Ref: Emmett 827.11, R3; Milne 1205</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/hadriantetosiriscanopus-hadrianvillaosiriscanopus-jpg.729157/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Another canopus reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cointalk.com%2Fproxy.php%3Fimage%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cointalk.com%252Fproxy.php%253Fimage%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fstatic.wixstatic.com%25252Fmedia%25252Fae43f8_47b39362ebc940b0b57af603449f184d%25257Emv2.jpg%25252Fv1%25252Ffill%25252Fw_1000%25252Ch_625%25252Cal_c%25252Cq_85%25252Fae43f8_47b39362ebc940b0b57af603449f184d%25257Emv2.jpg%2526hash%253De80ccc802919b664a1e761a418e0d078%26hash%3D052f6798e1bf232589267ad3169407e4&amp;hash=f7c496ed52b914c78d38784a4cdd1984" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian</b></p><p>year 18, CE 133/4</p><p>Æ drachm, 26.4 gm</p><p>Obv: AYT KAIC TPAIAN (A∆PIANOC CEB), laureate and draped bust right</p><p>Rev: Canopic jars facing; L I H across fields</p><p>Ref: Emmett 933.18, R1</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Canopus</b> was a city on the Nile delta. In that city, Ptolemy III built a temple to Osiris and in that city Osiris was depicted as a vase-like or jar-like sculpture. I don&#039;t know more about this temple or the artifacts, but that general style of lidded funerary vase (jar topped by an animal or human head) was dubbed &quot;Canopic&quot; jar by modern Egyptologists because of the resemblance to these artifacts of Osiris found in the town of Canopus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the standard four funerary canopic jars, with heads of the four sons of Horus:</p><p><img src="http://www.sadighgallery.com/assets/images/Home%20Page/Sadigh%20Gallery%20Featured%20Canopic%20Jars.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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