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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
Nicholas J. Molinari, PhD, is an academic librarian in Milford, Massachusetts and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI. He is the author, with Dr Nicola Sisci, of ΠΟΤΑΜΙΚΟΝ: Sinews of Acheloios (Archaeopress, 2016), and general editor of KOINON: The International Journal of Classical Numismatics.
'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
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