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Title [Symbol of Greek letter Pi]otamikon : sinews of Acheloios : a comprehensive catalog of the bronze coinage of the man-faced bull, with essays on origin and identity / edited by Nicholas J. Molinari and Nicola Sisci.

Publication Info. Oxford : Archaeopress, [2016]

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Note "Title appears on resource with symbol for Greek letter Pi as the first letter."
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Summary This work, 'Potamikon', presents an investigation into the origin and identity of the man-faced bull, as well as a catalogue of coins.
Audience Specialized.
Note Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service.
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.
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Subject Achelous (Greek deity) -- Numismatics.
Achelous (Greek deity)
Numismatics.
Bronze coins -- Greece -- Catalogs.
Bronze coins.
Greece.
Genre/Form Catalogs.
Subject Man-faced bulls in numismatics.
Water gods in numismatics.
Man-faced bulls in numismatics.
Coinage -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
Coinage.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Water gods in numismatics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Genre/Form History.
Catalogs.
Added Author Molinari, Nicholas J., editor.
Sisci, Nicola, editor.
Archaeopress, publisher.
Added Title Potamikon
Other Form: Print version: 9781784914011
ISBN 1784914029
9781784914028 (electronic book)