Towards the Divinity. Once more on the Coins of Seleucus I of the Nike Crowning a Trophy Type

• Authors: Mielczarek M.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with a group of Seleucus I's coins with an obverse of a male head wearing a helmet covered with panther skin and adorned with bull ears and horns, and with another panther skin round the neck; on the reverse Nike crowning a trophy and the legend 'BASILEOS SELEYKOY'. To the list of previous interpretations a further suggestion about Seleucus I's monetary propaganda can be added. The author argues that by minting coins with the portrait of Alexander the Great with Dionysiac attributes Seleucus made an ideological background for his own divinity, as well as his own monetary portrait.

Keywords

EN

COINS; SELEUCUS I

Discipline

• ARCHAEOLOGY: ARCHAEOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Archeologia
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 56
• Pages: 53-56
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Mielczarek M.

• M. Mielczarek, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Instytut Archeologii, ul. Szosa Bydgoska 44/48, 87-100 Torun, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA01874014