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<p>[QUOTE="Nicholas Molinari, post: 2443937, member: 78411"]I only have one youthful river god and it just so happens that it is paired with a man-faced bull:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]509720[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>From Panormos, 5th-4th century BC. Youthful, horned river god (Eleutherios) to left/ Forepart of Acheloios Oreto as a man-faced bull to right.</p><p><br /></p><p>Isler used this type in his argument that all man-faced bulls were Acheloios, claiming that here we see the youthful river god Oreto on one side and Acheloios as a man-faced bull on the other. However, the youthful river god is probably Eleutherios, a minor river close to Panormos, and the man-faced bull Acheloios Oreto, in keeping with the theory that man-faced bull represent local embodiments of Acheloios.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Nicholas Molinari, post: 2443937, member: 78411"]I only have one youthful river god and it just so happens that it is paired with a man-faced bull: [ATTACH=full]509720[/ATTACH] From Panormos, 5th-4th century BC. Youthful, horned river god (Eleutherios) to left/ Forepart of Acheloios Oreto as a man-faced bull to right. Isler used this type in his argument that all man-faced bulls were Acheloios, claiming that here we see the youthful river god Oreto on one side and Acheloios as a man-faced bull on the other. However, the youthful river god is probably Eleutherios, a minor river close to Panormos, and the man-faced bull Acheloios Oreto, in keeping with the theory that man-faced bull represent local embodiments of Acheloios.[/QUOTE]
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