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Maybe a cap at the feet Libratas?
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There is something at the feet but not a cap and there is something in the right hand that isn't a snake.
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The identity of this deity is directly pointed to by what is at her feet, which ahs things sticking out the top of it too.
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I've been trying to find this for hours! Seems somewhat familiar but I'm coming up empty. Looks like a couple of jars at her feet. Haven't found similar implements in thousands of pictures yet :/ Can't make out what is coming out of/into the jars.
Still not sure what the item in her right hand is. If not a snake, then... capricorn? lituus? lagolobon? aspergillum?
Not giving up yet...
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Lawdy lawdy, I think I finally got it. Abundantia, with a shepherd's hook thingy and a modius with grain or something like that.
Maybe from a Hadrian denarius.
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08/21/2013 2:54 pm
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Hadrian denarius Obv:- HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P laureate head right Rev:- COS III, Annona(sometime Abundantia), draped, seated left on low chair, holding hook upwards om right hand and cornucopia in left; at her left, modius and corn ears Rome Mint. Reference:- RIC 338, RSC 382, BMC 488  |
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Huh. I looked at Annona many times, didn't quite get it. The right elbow position on most is extended, wrist flexed, dropping some corn into the container. Learned a lot by searching though--eventually things will stick in memory. Next:  Edited by ThisIsFun
08/21/2013 3:41 pm
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Nope, not Libertas. Wrong culture.
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Hmm, there seems to be a lull in the interest of this thread. Or is a clue needed?
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I could use a clue but I am gonna say Tanit/Kore/Persephone ...
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You would say right  It's Tanit. Not in the best shape but it's MINE, soon to arrive. Pics modified from seller. Didn't have the patience to wait for it and take my own pics and it's just about the only non-ZeusAmmon or Athena I have, so my options for posting to GTG are usually limited.  Zeugitana, Carthage 15 Shekel AE44, 94.32g c.early 2nd Century BC Obverse: head of Tanit Reverse: horse standing right, left foreleg up; uraeus above |
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We cannot be friends after seeing that piece.... Daaaaaaaaannnnngg!
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