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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 7439027, member: 98035"]Thanks all!</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=75482]@dltsrq[/USER] - That is perhaps what draws me in to the series so much - the series covers nearly 900 years (from about 500 AD - 1350 AD or later) and goes to extreme lengths of abstraction along 3 evolutionary paths, about a hundred sub-series, and hundreds of varieties, within each series there is always some part of the design that the engravers cling to legalistically. For almost all of this series (Pratiharas / Track 3) it's the "snickers bar" design of the fire altar, but other things like the sun also can cling on for dear life even as the overall design slips into madness.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=90248]@Spaniard[/USER] - these are indeed related to that one, sort of a weird uncle if you will. A quick breakdown of the evolution of the series...</p><p><br /></p><p>Early SRI MA coinage...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1290683[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Which degenerates into something like this</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1290684[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>On some extremely rare examples the MA is replaced by JA (looks like a capital E)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1290685[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The top of the JA pops off and the bottom becomes a curved line in this series</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1290688[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Then a common type emerges, Maheshwari reads it as PRAA JA but I think it is still SRI JA (this one is directly related to the earlier JA, the OP series developed perhaps in parallel?)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1290689[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>From here the engravers decided to come back to reality, "Proto Sri Vigra" as Maheshwari calls them, but still reading SRI JA</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1290693[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Then the legend changes- SRI VIGRA and the body of the fire altar becomes either SA or MA ([USER=90248]@Spaniard[/USER]'s is MA)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1290768[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Then the plain body comes back, the attendants become more stylized, and the legend shortens to SRI VI</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1290769[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Then comes Bhoja I (836-885), one of only four rulers who issued a known Indo-Sassanian type - the popular Adivaraha Dramma, which kept the bottom portion of the Sri Vi reverse only </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1290808[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>His types were continued for about a century after his death, finally closing with Vinayakapala in the 950s, when this track supposedly comes to an end.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 7439027, member: 98035"]Thanks all! [USER=75482]@dltsrq[/USER] - That is perhaps what draws me in to the series so much - the series covers nearly 900 years (from about 500 AD - 1350 AD or later) and goes to extreme lengths of abstraction along 3 evolutionary paths, about a hundred sub-series, and hundreds of varieties, within each series there is always some part of the design that the engravers cling to legalistically. For almost all of this series (Pratiharas / Track 3) it's the "snickers bar" design of the fire altar, but other things like the sun also can cling on for dear life even as the overall design slips into madness. [USER=90248]@Spaniard[/USER] - these are indeed related to that one, sort of a weird uncle if you will. A quick breakdown of the evolution of the series... Early SRI MA coinage... [ATTACH=full]1290683[/ATTACH] Which degenerates into something like this [ATTACH=full]1290684[/ATTACH] On some extremely rare examples the MA is replaced by JA (looks like a capital E) [ATTACH=full]1290685[/ATTACH] The top of the JA pops off and the bottom becomes a curved line in this series [ATTACH=full]1290688[/ATTACH] Then a common type emerges, Maheshwari reads it as PRAA JA but I think it is still SRI JA (this one is directly related to the earlier JA, the OP series developed perhaps in parallel?) [ATTACH=full]1290689[/ATTACH] From here the engravers decided to come back to reality, "Proto Sri Vigra" as Maheshwari calls them, but still reading SRI JA [ATTACH=full]1290693[/ATTACH] Then the legend changes- SRI VIGRA and the body of the fire altar becomes either SA or MA ([USER=90248]@Spaniard[/USER]'s is MA) [ATTACH=full]1290768[/ATTACH] Then the plain body comes back, the attendants become more stylized, and the legend shortens to SRI VI [ATTACH=full]1290769[/ATTACH] Then comes Bhoja I (836-885), one of only four rulers who issued a known Indo-Sassanian type - the popular Adivaraha Dramma, which kept the bottom portion of the Sri Vi reverse only [ATTACH=full]1290808[/ATTACH] His types were continued for about a century after his death, finally closing with Vinayakapala in the 950s, when this track supposedly comes to an end.[/QUOTE]
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