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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2812360, member: 57495&quot;]Thanks, interesting link!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Do you mean the Festival of Isis?&nbsp; That&#039;s a truly fascinating series.&nbsp; The best resource for those issues that I&#039;ve found online are on the Tesorillo site:</p><p><a href="https://www.tesorillo.com/isis/index1.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.tesorillo.com/isis/index1.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.tesorillo.com/isis/index1.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hermes-Thoth found some popularity outside Egypt as well.&nbsp; Here he is on a coin from Tyre from the reign of Gallienus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]658502[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>GALLIENUS</b></p><p>Very Rare. AE Dichalkon. 14.21g, 30.9mm. PHOENICIA, Tyre, circa AD 253-268. Rouvier 2529 var. (rev legend); AUB –; BMC –. O: IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from front. R: COL TVRO MET, Hermes-Thoth, half-naked, standing left, holding papyrus roll and caduceus; to left, ibis standing left; to right, murex shell set upon palm tree.</p><p><i>Ex Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre; Ex John A. Seeger Collection (CNG 172, 5 Sep 2007), lot 125</i></p><p>Notes:</p><p><i>In his <i>History of the Phoenicians</i>, the 1st century writer Philo of Byblos tells of an incarnation of Hermes-Thoth, known as Hermes Trismegistus (Hermes the Thrice Great), who was advisor and scribe to Kronos (the Phoenician god El) and who assisted him in the overthrow of Uranus. A few centuries later, the early Christian authors Lactantius and Augustine would write of Hermes Trismegistus as a mortal man, a wise Pagan philosopher of an earlier antiquity whom they claimed foresaw the coming of Christ. This Hermes Trismegistus was credited as the author of thousands of ancient texts expounding upon philosophy, magic, and the divine, including the Emerald Tablet, the <i>Asclepius </i>and the <i>Corpus Hermeticum</i>.</i></p><p><i>The coins of Tyre showing Hermes-Thoth are distinctive in their depiction of this syncretic deity, capturing his diverse essence with an array of associated symbols - the ibis (of Thoth), caduceus (of Hermes), and papyrus scroll (as patron of writers, and as the divine scribe, Hermes Trismegistus). These issues date from the reigns of Philip the Arab (AD 244-249) through Gallienus (AD 253-268).</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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