Description: Thessaly, Thessalian League, mid-late 1st century BC. Eubiotos and Petraios, magistrates. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / ΘEΣΣA-ΛΩN, EYBIOTOY, ΠETPAIOΣ; Taurokathapsia scene: the hero Thessalos jumping from his horse, in background galloping right, onto a bull running right, the head of which he restrains with a band held in both of his hands.

Diameter: AE23 mm

Weight: 16,26 g

Grade: gF/aVF

Attribution: Burrer p. 62; Rogers 58 corr. (scene misdescribed); see also Nomos 4, 1391 with additional reference to the article by Stoyas.

Commentary: rare; green patina, thick flan, well centered

History: In the Thessalian version of Taurokathapsia a man on horseback was to chase down and subdue a bull, grabbing his horns and jumping from his horse on the back of the bull.

Article Number: 007-01-03-41652