book cover
Download Sample PDF

H 290 x W 205 mm

366 pages

Illustrated throughout in black & white

Published Jul 2016

Archaeopress Archaeology

ISBN

Paperback: 9781784914011

Digital: 9781784914028

Recommend to a librarian

Keywords
Numismatics; Siciliy; Italy; Bronze Age; Man-faced bull; Iconography

Potamikon: Sinews of Acheloios

A Comprehensive Catalog of the Bronze Coinage of the Man-Faced Bull, with Essays on Origin and Identity

By Nicholas J. Molinari, Nicola Sisci

Paperback
£50.00
Includes PDF

PDF eBook
(personal use)
£16.00

PDF eBook
(institutional use)
£50.00

Add to basket

Add to wishlist

This book, Potamikon, presents an investigation into the origin and identity of the man-faced bull, as well as a catalogue of coins.

READ MORE

Contents

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

Reviews

'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