Potamikon: Sinews of Acheloios
A Comprehensive Catalog of the Bronze Coinage of the Man-Faced Bull, with Essays on Origin and Identity
By (author) Nicholas J. Molinari By (author) Nicola Sisci
Paperback (Published)
(July 2016)
ISBN: 9781784914011
8.07 x 11.42 inches
Price: $100.00
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(July 2016)
ISBN: 9781784914097
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This book, Potamikon, presents an investigation into the origin and identity of the man-faced bull, as well as a catalogue of coins.
Potamikon attempts to solve a question that has perplexed scholars for hundreds of years: Who exactly is the man-faced bull featured so often on Greek coinage? It approaches this question by examining the origin of the iconography and traces its development throughout various Mediterranean cultures, finally arriving in Archaic and Classical Greece in the first millennium BC. Within the context of Greek coinage, the authors review all the past arguments for the identity of the man-faced bull before incorporating the two leading theories (Local River Gods vs. Acheloios) into a new theory of local embodiments of Acheloios, thereby preserving the sanctity of the local rivers while recognizing Acheloios as the original god of all water. The second part of the book exhibits many of these ‘Sinews of Acheloios’ as they appear throughout the Greek world on bronze coinage, in each case paying careful attention to the reasons a specific group adopted the iconography and shedding further light on the mythos of Acheloios.
Introduction: Why the Man-Faced Bull? ;
Part I: Concerning the Origin and Identity of the Man-Faced Bull Section One: On the Origin of Man-Faced Bull Iconography ;
Chapter I: Paleolithic Art-Iron Age ;
Chapter II: The Westward Migrations of Man-Faced Bull Iconography ;
Chapter III: The Iconography and Related Traditions in Early Western Mediterranean Cultures ;
Chapter IV: The Etruscan and Greek Worlds ;
Chapter V: Distribution of the Iconography on Greek Coinage ;
Section Two: On the Identity of the Man-Faced Bull ;
Chapter VI: Past Arguments for the Identity of the Man-Faced Bull ;
Chapter VII: The Identity of the Greek Man-Faced Bull ;
Part II: Catalog of the Bronze Coinage of the Man-Faced Bull Section Three: SICILY ;
Section Four: ITALY ;
Section Five: AKARNANIA ;
Section Six: REMAINING MINTS ;
Appendix 1: Joseph Eckhel, ‘De tauro cum facie humana,’ in Doctrina Numorum Veterum, Vol. 1 (Wien: Ignatius Alberti, 1792). Translated by Curtis Clay, 2013. ;
Appendix 2: ‘The Oxus River God: a man-faced Indian humped bull’ by Dr. Lloyd W. H. Taylor” after the title ‘The Oxus River God ;
Bibliography ;
Index
- By (author) Nicholas J. Molinari
- By (author) Nicola Sisci
"'This book will be of much importance, not only for the numismatists but for everybody who is interested in the study of mankind and its past.' - Sergei A. Kovalenko, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (2019), Ancient West and East"
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'This book will be of much importance, not only for the numismatists but for everybody who is interested in the study of mankind and its past.' - Sergei A. Kovalenko, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (2019), Ancient West and East
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