adventures in my head
The little nubbins sticking out of the head of Demetrius Poliorcetes (if that’s the correct identification of these statues) are the base of goat horns that have broken off. These aren’t on a helmet, but are still clearly part of the royal iconography of Philip V’s predecessors on the throne of Macedonia. (Images and Discussion… Continue reading More on Goat Horns
I went looking for my notes on this subject and searched and searched the blog and couldn’t find the post I wanted. Only to realize that my notes were pre-blog! So for future easier searching here’s a collection of factoids related to RRC 293/1 (c. 113-2 BCE). The most important coin type for understanding this… Continue reading Goat Horn Helmets
The last time I was in Oxford some 14 months ago, I think, I snapped this image with my camera phone in the Sackler Library. I was so happy to find an example of the iconography of this coin in a published excavation report of site finds. [Update 8/24/13: The image above looks more like a… Continue reading 66 out of 410 days: Hairy Goats and My Notes
There seems to me to be some logical inconsistency in how we identify Pan and Silenus on Roman Republican coins. The type above is likely the first to depict either. Crawford dates it to 91; Mattingly prefers 90 (2004: 248). Quite logically the “Silenus” on the obverse is taken to pun on the moneyer’s name,… Continue reading 190 out of 410 days: Silenus, Pan, and Dionysus (Father Liber)
These examples were all plucked off acsearch.info and are thus from auction catalogues. They just supplement the many images available on CRRO for RRC 319/1. Anyway I just want to note that the right hand figure, which Crawford identifies as a barbarian soldier is probably meant to be a Macedonian. The round shield is one… Continue reading More Horned Helmets
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