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The Ophidian Iconography Quest (Mundus Vetus & Mundus Novus, 2004 - present) |
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| Figure NAM-can-034. Snake emerging from a half-open cista mystica encircled by an ivy wreath of the god of the vine, grape harvest, winemaking, wine, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, fertility, epiphany, and theatre Dionysos. Bow-case decorated with aphlaston and flanked by two confronted, undulating snakes; thyrsos entwined by a snake (mint's control mark?). |
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| Silver, photo- paper |
Coin (Cistophoric tetradrachm, ob-verse; cutout of a photograph, reverse) |
Pergamon mint, Mysia |
Middle Hellenistic, 133-100 BC |
TBD | Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Inventory № 949x15.343 |
| Source-Image(s): The image(s) is/are from Alexei Alexeev's personal photo archive (The First* Canadian Expedition, 6-8 September 2015, 20-21 May 2017, 1-3 September 2017, 23-24 September 2018). All artefacts will be available for viewing in the Compendium's respective volumes after the completion of the fully integrated iconographic database. Some of the artefacts will be represented by several figures (offering a general view and details). |
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