This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... two the more important is the fifth Olympian, with its intimate allusions to the local cult of Athena, the nymph Camarina, her sacred lake, and the rivers Hipparis and Oanis. The tetradrachms (some of them signed by the engraver Exakestidas) have now a 'Beardless head of Heracles, and the style of the horses is more ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... two the more important is the fifth Olympian, with its intimate allusions to the local cult of Athena, the nymph Camarina, her sacred lake, and the rivers Hipparis and Oanis. The tetradrachms (some of them signed by the engraver Exakestidas) have now a 'Beardless head of Heracles, and the style of the horses is more spirited and varied than on the earlier coins (PI. VIII. 3). In the exergue of some specimens we see two amphorae, jars for wine, or perhaps, as Athena drives the chariot, for oiI. They are very probably prize vases. The signature of E AKE TIAA2: is written on the exergual line. The most interesting pieces, however, are the didrachms with a horned head of the river-god Hipparis, and a representation of the nymph Camarina borne on a swan over her lake, while the wind inflates her veil and the fish leap around. On some specimens (probably the later) the river-god's head is represented facing (PI. VIII. 8); on others it is in profile, and on these his name (IPPAPI5I) is sometimes given. The waves of his stream are treated conventionally so as to form a border, and a fish is seen on each side of the head. Some of these didrachms are signed by Euaenetus, others by Exakestidas. The drachms (PI. VIII. 5), half-drachms (PI. VIII. 9), and litrae represent the head of the nymph Camarina (KAMAPINA), sometimes facing, sometimes in profile, Fig. 31. Camarina: Oeol. Fig. 32. Camarina: Litra. in a manner evidently inspired by the art of Syracuse; a flying Victory (Figs. 31, 32, as on the earliest coins CAMARINA. HIMERA 127 of the city), a head of Athena (Fig. 32), and a swan (Fig-33) are also types to be found on the smaller coins. On the bronze, which was issued for some few years before the trans Fig. 33. Camarina: Obol. portation, we find types a...
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