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Vol. V · Deified Humans
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Seleucid king who called himself Theos Epiphanes God Manifest
his divine-radiance portrait coins struck across the empire as he defiled the Jerusalem Temple
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.