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<p>[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8050769, member: 118780"]Interesting. I checked with <a href="https://www.academia.edu/337928/Le_premier_monnayage_de_la_cité_dAmastris_Paphlagonie_" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/337928/Le_premier_monnayage_de_la_cité_dAmastris_Paphlagonie_" rel="nofollow">Callatay</a>, who I think is the expert on Amastris, and he seems to feel that this is not Men, but is non-committal on Mithra vs Amastris herself.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, when I look at his summary of the different visages, he notes that Men is typically represented by a Phrygian cap with eight-pointed star and lunar crescent. There is an eight-pointed star on my coin, and the lunar crescent looks to be above-right of the star.</p><p><br /></p><p>Searching for the history of Men worship has been challenging, as searches have been bringing up other things... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8050769, member: 118780"]Interesting. I checked with [URL='https://www.academia.edu/337928/Le_premier_monnayage_de_la_cité_dAmastris_Paphlagonie_']Callatay[/URL], who I think is the expert on Amastris, and he seems to feel that this is not Men, but is non-committal on Mithra vs Amastris herself. However, when I look at his summary of the different visages, he notes that Men is typically represented by a Phrygian cap with eight-pointed star and lunar crescent. There is an eight-pointed star on my coin, and the lunar crescent looks to be above-right of the star. Searching for the history of Men worship has been challenging, as searches have been bringing up other things... :)[/QUOTE]
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