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LUC AN I A.
(Diod. xiv. ioi), but the city did not begin materially to decline before
the middle of the fourth century, when the rise of the Bruttian power
deprived it of its inland sources of wealth.
The coinage of this period, b. c. 390 to 350, reaches the highest point of
excellence in respect of execution, without perhaps losing much of the
severe delicacy of style which is so remarkable on the coins of the earlier
time.
Circ. B. c. 390-350.
Fig. 48.
Head of Athena, her helmet richly
adorned, generally with a figure of
Scylla (Fig. 48)
[Cf. Imlioof,Mon. Gr., p. 7.]
0OYPIDN Rushing bull: in ex.
usually a fish, other symbols however
occur, and artists’names ICTOPOS.
MOAO^^O^, and NIKANAPO, on
the base beneath the bull
At Distater, Stater, and Sixth.
The head of Athena on these coins is probably that of Athena
Skyletria, a sea-goddess whose worship appears to have prevailed at the
town of Scylletion (of which, however, we have no coins) as well as on
the rocky Iapygian promontory \ at Heraclea, and perhaps at other
dangerous points on the Bruttian coasts1 2. With regard to the
meaning of the Bull on the reverse of the coins of Thurium there
has been much difference of opinion. Some take it to be a symbol
of Dionysos, others to be the Body Oovpios or rushing bull indicative of
the fountain Qovpi.a, from which the city took its name, while others
again, and perhaps with better reason, look upon it as symbolizing the
river Crathis, and as merely an artistic outcome or development of the
bull which was the constant type of the archaic coins of Sybaris.
Circ. b. c. '850-300.
In this period the names of magistrates occur with greater frequency,
and a marked deterioration is noticeable both in the style and execution
of the pieces [B. M. Guide, Pl. XXXIV. 22]. The Sixths (diobols, minimi'?) of
this period are of common occurrence, their types being the same as those
of the larger coins.
Circ. b. c
About B. C. 300 the weight of the
turn and Haraclea, from 120 to 100
Head of Apollo, laureate.
Head of Pallas in Corinthian helmet.
Veiled female head, sceptre behind.
. 300-268.
didrachm or stater falls, as at Taren-
?rs., and new types are adopted :—
OOYPID.N Butting bull, magistrates’
names AAE, API, EDI, &c.
[B.M. Guide, Pl.XLV.18j Stater ioogrs.
Similar type : above, owl
Stater 100 grs.
OOYPIDN Butting bull Ad 23 grs.
1 Probably the three headlands to the north of the Scylletic gulf. Strabo, vi. cap. i.
2 Lycophron, 1. 853. Lenormant. Gr. Grece, ii. p. 338.
(Diod. xiv. ioi), but the city did not begin materially to decline before
the middle of the fourth century, when the rise of the Bruttian power
deprived it of its inland sources of wealth.
The coinage of this period, b. c. 390 to 350, reaches the highest point of
excellence in respect of execution, without perhaps losing much of the
severe delicacy of style which is so remarkable on the coins of the earlier
time.
Circ. B. c. 390-350.
Fig. 48.
Head of Athena, her helmet richly
adorned, generally with a figure of
Scylla (Fig. 48)
[Cf. Imlioof,Mon. Gr., p. 7.]
0OYPIDN Rushing bull: in ex.
usually a fish, other symbols however
occur, and artists’names ICTOPOS.
MOAO^^O^, and NIKANAPO, on
the base beneath the bull
At Distater, Stater, and Sixth.
The head of Athena on these coins is probably that of Athena
Skyletria, a sea-goddess whose worship appears to have prevailed at the
town of Scylletion (of which, however, we have no coins) as well as on
the rocky Iapygian promontory \ at Heraclea, and perhaps at other
dangerous points on the Bruttian coasts1 2. With regard to the
meaning of the Bull on the reverse of the coins of Thurium there
has been much difference of opinion. Some take it to be a symbol
of Dionysos, others to be the Body Oovpios or rushing bull indicative of
the fountain Qovpi.a, from which the city took its name, while others
again, and perhaps with better reason, look upon it as symbolizing the
river Crathis, and as merely an artistic outcome or development of the
bull which was the constant type of the archaic coins of Sybaris.
Circ. b. c. '850-300.
In this period the names of magistrates occur with greater frequency,
and a marked deterioration is noticeable both in the style and execution
of the pieces [B. M. Guide, Pl. XXXIV. 22]. The Sixths (diobols, minimi'?) of
this period are of common occurrence, their types being the same as those
of the larger coins.
Circ. b. c
About B. C. 300 the weight of the
turn and Haraclea, from 120 to 100
Head of Apollo, laureate.
Head of Pallas in Corinthian helmet.
Veiled female head, sceptre behind.
. 300-268.
didrachm or stater falls, as at Taren-
?rs., and new types are adopted :—
OOYPID.N Butting bull, magistrates’
names AAE, API, EDI, &c.
[B.M. Guide, Pl.XLV.18j Stater ioogrs.
Similar type : above, owl
Stater 100 grs.
OOYPIDN Butting bull Ad 23 grs.
1 Probably the three headlands to the north of the Scylletic gulf. Strabo, vi. cap. i.
2 Lycophron, 1. 853. Lenormant. Gr. Grece, ii. p. 338.