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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Ancient portraits of Christ
From: tcharara at mac.com (Tarek Charara)
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:55:14 +0200
References: <CBA0B998.1C90E%mark@rabinergroup.com> <4F7B471B.3080108@csdco.com>

John,

A lovely coin?

All the best from Paris!

Tarek

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Tarek Charara
<http://www.tarekcharara.com>

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Le 3 avr. 2012 ? 20:53, John Nebel a ?crit :

> Rabs,
> 
> ... an ancient Sinar with a macro lens, 10 years old, an aeon for 
> electronics, <http://www.ancientmoney.org/about/sinar_cp.html>.
> 
> Best,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On 4/3/2012 12:28 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> Do did you take these pictures? With a macro?
>> 
>> - - from my iRabs.
>> Mark Rabiner
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>> 
>> 
>>> From: "John D. Nebel"<john.nebel at csdco.com>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:53:29 -0600
>>> To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Ancient portraits of Christ
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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