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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3631450, member: 74834&quot;]A real elephant quadriga was probably a rickety contraption. The chariot must be fifteen feet high if the emperor wants to see what&#039;s before him. He will look like a puny gilded midget, vulnerable because of the sheer size and weight of the animals and the wheels of his vehicle.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a much later coin with elephant quadriga, sadly rather worn, but still identifiable. It&#039;s from Nicaea, in the northwest of Asia Minor, where the image of the god Dionysus with elephants was used often in the course of the centuries. </p><p>To a god, the art of driving an elephant quadriga would only come natural.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]974027[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nicaea in Bithynia, Gallienus (253-268). AE22. Obv: ΠOV ΛI ЄΓ ΓAΛΛIHNOC. Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: NIKAIЄΩN. Dionysos seated left on quadriga of elephants, pouring libations from a cantharus. 22.5 mm, 6.57 gr.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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