Victory and the Bull

ANS example of RIC I Augustus 514

I wanted to juxtapose this coin with this terracotta plaque I saw yesterday the Altes Museum (Berlin)

Part of me wonders if the dating could be off and these plaques might possibly be part of the Augustan era classicizing/archaizing impetus.


Updated 1/20/24:

Townley collection BM

Glass paste BM

Tassie (Beazley)

Notice the sacrifice is to Artemis!

Beazley
BnF
Arachne Link

Arachne link, impression of A. Furtwängler, Beschreibung der geschnittenen Steine im Antiquarium, Königliche Museen Berlin (1896), Kat.Nr. 9548 (Karneol).

Arachne Link. (Consider if iconography of Nike temple on Acropolis is relevant at all, esp. Balustrad

Thorvaldsen has two such gems, neither yet digitized.

Cf. Cupids engaged in Bull Sacrifice in the reliefs from the Forum of Julius Caesar honoring Venus Genetrix

Update 10/5/22:

Louvre has bull slaying scene too, but a different mold. Wierd how this one has the palmettes at the bottom.

The another plaque in this set also shares a similar iconography with other numismatic representations:

ANS specimen
RIC Hadrian 298

Minerva/Athena Promachos? Palladion? Your call.

Abdera specimen.

Updated 10-10-22:

Louvre. Note base this is a statue being worshipped

Update 12/8/22:

comparative iconography. What do we call these grassy crowns?!

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