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History of early Christian art (1893)

Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 361

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e of Constantine which are interestingenough to require notice. Certain coins of Septimus Severus, which have thesubject of Noahs ark on their reverse, must be noticed,if only to say that we do not claim a Christian originfor them. These were all coined at Apamea on the COINS, MEDALS, AND GEMS. 337… … Coin of Septimus Severus. of the Flood, one had taken root at Apamea, andthus the ark is adopted on the coin as a hieroglyphof the name of the city.* A medallion of Trajan Decius (249-251) struck atMetonia in Lydia has on the reverse the inscriptionEn . AYP . A-I-riANYO B . A XP. A . TO . B . CTE-.…

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