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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1783058, member: 42773&quot;]Quite right - I had it backwards. Here&#039;s a pertinent entry from the Ancient History Encyclopedia...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.ancient.eu.com/Melqart/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ancient.eu.com/Melqart/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ancient.eu.com/Melqart/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If he had no anthropomorphic appearance before Hellenistic influence, however, the portrait we&#039;re looking at on the coin is, in fact, a variation of Hercules.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s a question, though: is the portrait on my coin really Melqarth? Melqarth is depicted very differently on larger denomination bronzes of the period, and on the Tyrian shekels. He has much thicker, more masculine features...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s7.postimg.org/41rut8z97/melqart.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You can find this portrayal of Melqarth-qua-Herakles going back to Siculo-Punic issues. The bust on my coin does not resemble any other portrait of Melqarth I&#039;ve seen. It has thinner, boyish features. Who is it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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