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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancientone, post: 4711271, member: 71599&quot;]Nice additions Ryro! That Dart sling is cool. </p><p><br /></p><p>Instigator Philip V. w/ unrecorded Medusa on shield. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1155804[/ATTACH]<b> Macedonian Kings, Philip V. Bronze AE17. Aegis shield. </b> Macedonian Kingdom, Philip V, 221 - 179 B.C. Bronze AE 17, obverse laureate head of Zeus right; reverse B-A / Φ, Athena Alkidemos standing right, brandishing javelin in right, aegis in left hand with head of medusa, dolphin lower right. SNG Cop 1244-1246var.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1155805[/ATTACH] </p><p>&quot;It&#039;s a rendering of the Classical (not the traditional Archaic) more romantic Medusa. For the type see the Rondanini Medusa in the Glyptothek in Munich. Considering that it&#039;s a detail of a 15mm coin, it&#039;s remarkably good, even suggesting the foreshortened knotted snakes that frame her chin. All other things being equal, a Medusa gorgoneion is Athena&#039;s most usual episematic device, since it belongs to the aegis. Actually, it needn&#039;t be specifically the Medusa of the Perseus myth, but a lot of books call any gorgon &#039;Medusa&#039;.&quot;</p><p>-Pat Lawrence[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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