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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 25987553, member: 15481&quot;]That&#039;s a great point indeed. It sure seems to speculate. I gave it my description of a Cilician coin that has Aharu Mazda on obverse and Baal on reverse, and asked it if it found anything puzzling about the coin. It went on to discuss this: &quot;This coin reflects the complex interplay of religious and cultural influences that characterized Cilicia during the late 5th century BC. By featuring both Ahura-Mazda and Ba&#039;al, the coin suggests a desire to unify a diverse population of different backgrounds and beliefs, appealing to both Zoroastrian and Canaanite traditions. &quot;</p><p>So I found that it caught what I am fascinated by. It isn&#039;t presicely factual, though. I don&#039;t count on it as a 100% certain answer, but I don&#039;t see how it can provide that either, given that much of what we assume about the past is theory, not fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for how much information I fed it, that varied from just the plain description of size, weight and iconography, to some longer texts that I have made myself. It is quite accurate in the description of the deities and their position/meaning. The questions about why particular cities used paticular deities, is more speculation. It doesn&#039;t have &quot;facts&quot; to draw on here, just probability.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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