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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3436168, member: 56859&quot;]Interesting.&nbsp; The &quot;pygmy&quot; on the Attic vase you showed isn&#039;t really a pygmy, or it isn&#039;t a pygmy in the modern sense of the word.&nbsp; The Attic vase depicts an achondroplastic dwarf (short stature, disproportionately short limbs) whereas &quot;pygmies&quot; are people of short stature but normally proportioned limbs.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m going to have to think about all of this.&nbsp; When is a small person on a coin deemed a &quot;pygmy&quot; versus something else?&nbsp; Why is this coin of Diocletian said to have a &quot;dancing pygmy&quot; yet on the coins showing Nilus in a pose similar to the statue the small people are generally labeled as &quot;genii&quot;?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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