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Visual depiction of Antiochus IV Epiphanes

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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

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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.