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is this coin a portrait of King Juba or Caesar Augustus
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: Mauritanians during the time of the Romans were African [/QUOTE]how do you know some were not mixed with Romans, Greeks or Phoenicians? [/qb][/QUOTE]because they were black, woolly haired, and plaited their hair according to the ancient Greeks and Romans [/qb][/QUOTE][IMG]http://picturestack.com/874/333/3XUPicture6Joi.png[/IMG] you mean plaited hair like this? Also you will have to provide quotes to back what you claim about Mauretanians. It was a Roman province at the time. There was mixing going on as is typical with berbers Juba II married a Greek Ptolemaic princess Cleopatra Selene II. Greeks had setteled in the region, Romans and Phoenicians so if Juba II was part African and part non-African if would not be surprising At the same time we dont know if there were intermarriage differences between rank and file Mauretanians and the royals, powerful Mauretanins probably had more access to the Roman women than the average Mauretanian [/qb][/QUOTE]"being the type of a silver coin which bears the Roman inscription " Juba Rex." Still, an anonymous archaeologist, (Steinbuchel, ) suggests, that this effigy, with its peculiar African headdress, might represent an African Jupiter, rather than a king, since his features are somewhat ideal and the scepter on the shoulder of the bust is an attribution of Jupiter, or of Juno, exceptionally given to kings." Indigenous Races of the Earth; or new chapters of ethnological inquiry ... By J. C. Nott pg 95 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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