Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, Thanks for the observation, I Googled <http://www.imperialethiopia.org/selassie.htm> and he does look like the second coin. I also read that Haile Selassie traced his ancestry back to King Solomon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halie_Selassie>. Best, John On 4/8/2012 9:57 AM, Peter Dzwig wrote: > I can't help but think that thye second image of CXhrist looks more Coptic > in > style. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StMarkcoptic.jpg , although this is St. > Mark; > Possibly it even looks Ethiopian (compare for example the standard images > of > Haile Selassie). Not surprising though considering the extent of Byzantium > at > the time. > > Peter Dzwig > > On 03/04/2012 17:53, John Nebel wrote: >> Greetings! >> >> In 692 AD at the Quinisext Council in Constantinople, Canon LXXXII >> established, >> according to the epitome, "Thou shalt not paint a lamb for the type of >> Christ, >> but himself." The Byzantine emperor was Justinian II, and the empire's >> coinage >> consequently depicted Christ as a human figure. >> >> <http://photos.csd.net/justinian_ii.html> was minted during Justinian >> II's first >> reign. This portrait of Christ misses the mark "himself" as it is likely >> based >> on the Greek sculptor's, Phidias's statue of Zeus from Olympia, made >> about a >> millennium before and one of the wonders of the ancient world. >> >> Mouse over the coin's image to see the reverse, or click for a larger >> image. >> This coin and the next are about 19mm diameter, 4gms mass. The coin's >> reverse >> depicts Justinian II. >> >> The Phidias image of Christ appears to have become the standard as one >> can see >> from a WP image of a wall painting at Hagia Sophia made centuries later, >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Byzantinischer_Mosaizist_um_1020_001.jpg> >> >> During Justinian II's second reign another coin was minted, perhaps a more >> realist depiction of Christ,<http://photos.csd.net/justinian_ii_2a.html>. >> On >> the reverse, Justinian II is on the left, Tiberius on the right. Similar >> mouse >> functions on the image. >> >> C&C welcome! >> >> Best, >> >> John >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >