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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24872584, member: 26430&quot;]Another fun little Greek bronze! You&#039;ve got the general attribution correct. I haven&#039;t checked the catalog refs., but any var. might be about control symbols.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m at the airport so I don&#039;t have photos of my specimens but I&#039;ll show ACSearch exs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some have a bow case or some other object, but yours has the object that is usually described as a Griffin headed bow. (I&#039;ve also seen &quot;arc ending in head of stag&quot; and similar confused suggestions.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But to me, it&#039;s clearly something else entirely:</p><p><br /></p><p>I feel strongly this one must be one of the Carnyx-type military horns shaped like dragons, etc. (If so, very cool!) Different ancient groups had their own varieties but this looks a lot like the classic Celtic one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a very clear example. Ex <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=37504" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=37504" rel="nofollow">CNG (NOT MINE)</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1596300[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8101012" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8101012" rel="nofollow">Leu described a similar one</a> as griffin-headed bow:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1596301[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If you know what a carnyx looks like, I feel it&#039;s unmistakable. I&#039;ll try to edit in photos once I&#039;m through airport security...</p><p><br /></p><p><i>ETA</i>: usually described as a Gallic/Celtic object, the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnyx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnyx" rel="nofollow">Carnyx (horn) [Wiki; compare images to the CNG spec. above])</a> was well known &amp; used throughout ancient Europe, and appear all over Greek &amp; Roman coins. My favorite Carnyx depiction is <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Carnyx+hostili+sasern&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Carnyx+hostili+sasern&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=3" rel="nofollow">on the obverse of the Hostilius Saserna &quot;dreadlocked Gallia&quot; denarius</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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