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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 55717, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Man-headed bulls of Magna Graecia and Sicily</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The man-headed bull has been identified most often as some kind of &quot;river god&quot; image.&nbsp; Typical is this one from Gela, a Greek town in Sicily.&nbsp; The same image is known from Greek towns all over southern Italy, including &quot;Neapolis&quot; modern Naples.</p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sg/sg0797-r.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sg/sg0797-r.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sg/sg0797-r.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This particular coin has a rider and horse obverse:</p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sg/sg0797-o.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sg/sg0797-o.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sg/sg0797-o.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>However, it is a LITRA, a silver coin, about 8 mm in diameter, pretty small.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin, also from Gela, is about the size of a U.S. quarter and two or three times as thick.&nbsp; It has the chariot referred to:</p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sg/sg0785.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sg/sg0785.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sg/sg0785.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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