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<p>[QUOTE="Jochen1, post: 3462029, member: 103829"]A beautiful site for architectonical coins is <a href="http://www.aeruginis.de/aeruginis/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.aeruginis.de/aeruginis/" rel="nofollow">http://www.aeruginis.de/aeruginis/</a> Highly recommended! From this site for your coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>Ref.: Lindgren I.1917, BMC 34, SNG Hunter 2664, SNG Righetti 1873, SNG Fitzw. 5852</p><p><br /></p><p>6-column Corinthian temple on stylobate with a 'Syrian gable'. Above Aries to the right, a kind of "heraldic animal" like Pegasos for Samosata or Capricorn for Zeugma. In the temple on its own flat base the statue of Zeus Kataibates sitting on a rock, who "descended" in lightning and thunder, with scepter and lightning, at the feet of eagle.</p><p>A curtain above the head of the statue indicates a ceremonial unveiling of the statue (so Butcher)</p><p>Zeus Kataibates was worshipped above all where a lightning had struck (Flash mark), here apparently a rock. Such places were delimited in different ways (Puteal).</p><p>From here came Andronikos, who built the "Tower of the Winds" in Athens for Caesar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jochen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jochen1, post: 3462029, member: 103829"]A beautiful site for architectonical coins is [url]http://www.aeruginis.de/aeruginis/[/url] Highly recommended! From this site for your coin: Ref.: Lindgren I.1917, BMC 34, SNG Hunter 2664, SNG Righetti 1873, SNG Fitzw. 5852 6-column Corinthian temple on stylobate with a 'Syrian gable'. Above Aries to the right, a kind of "heraldic animal" like Pegasos for Samosata or Capricorn for Zeugma. In the temple on its own flat base the statue of Zeus Kataibates sitting on a rock, who "descended" in lightning and thunder, with scepter and lightning, at the feet of eagle. A curtain above the head of the statue indicates a ceremonial unveiling of the statue (so Butcher) Zeus Kataibates was worshipped above all where a lightning had struck (Flash mark), here apparently a rock. Such places were delimited in different ways (Puteal). From here came Andronikos, who built the "Tower of the Winds" in Athens for Caesar. Jochen[/QUOTE]
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