Abstract
The paper considers the features of some plots on the reverses of a group of the late 3rd century BC Panricapaean silver coins. The author focuses on the appearance in the Bosporan coin typology of the drachm with Apollo’s head / eagle and raises the question of the choice of such an unusual pair of types by the engravers. The compilation character of the type of reverse of silver pentobol with eagle-headed griffi n, below ear, is also noted, which clearly imitates the reverse of gold and copper Panticapaean coins of the 4th century BC. Another type of Bosporan silver, with head of lion holding spear in his mouth, fi nds analogies in the coinage of the Thracian and Italic cities. The author believes that the reverse types of Panticapaean silver under consideration, despite their complete independence, are united by a special internal logic of the “Apollonian space”, which allows them to be brought together into a single series.
Keywords
Cimmerian Bosporus, Panticapaean coinage, Apollonian symbolics.
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