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<p>[QUOTE="Jochen1, post: 7599343, member: 103829"]Dear [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for this in deep article. I for myself have thought that it was a big dog on the denar until I came across an article of Max Bahrfeldt.</p><p><br /></p><p>In "Untersuchungen über die Chronologie der Münzen der Domitii Ahenobarbi aus der Zeit der römischen Republik, Zeitschrift für Numismatik, Herausgegeben von Alfred von Sallett, 19. Band, Berlin, 1895" Max Bahrfeldt writes 1892:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Babelon connected the man fighting under the Biga with a large animal with the Roman story that in the battle at Vindelium against the Allobroges and Arvernes in 633 (121 BC), the leader of the latter, Bituitus, let loose packs of large dogs specially trained for fighting against the legions commanded by C. Domitius. He therefore sees in the animal a large dog, not a lion according to the previous assumption."</p><p><br /></p><p>And he writes further: "<b>This explanation would fit very well if the times were correct</b>. Since the battle of Vindelium took place in 633 (121 B.C.), but the denarius must have been struck before 629 (125 B.C.), the year of the burial of the treasures of La Riccia and Masera, the representation on the denarius cannot be connected with the narrative."</p><p><br /></p><p>Best regards</p><p>Jochen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jochen1, post: 7599343, member: 103829"]Dear [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER]! Thank you for this in deep article. I for myself have thought that it was a big dog on the denar until I came across an article of Max Bahrfeldt. In "Untersuchungen über die Chronologie der Münzen der Domitii Ahenobarbi aus der Zeit der römischen Republik, Zeitschrift für Numismatik, Herausgegeben von Alfred von Sallett, 19. Band, Berlin, 1895" Max Bahrfeldt writes 1892: "Babelon connected the man fighting under the Biga with a large animal with the Roman story that in the battle at Vindelium against the Allobroges and Arvernes in 633 (121 BC), the leader of the latter, Bituitus, let loose packs of large dogs specially trained for fighting against the legions commanded by C. Domitius. He therefore sees in the animal a large dog, not a lion according to the previous assumption." And he writes further: "[B]This explanation would fit very well if the times were correct[/B]. Since the battle of Vindelium took place in 633 (121 B.C.), but the denarius must have been struck before 629 (125 B.C.), the year of the burial of the treasures of La Riccia and Masera, the representation on the denarius cannot be connected with the narrative." Best regards Jochen[/QUOTE]
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