Yes! I knew Roland would have something, and know about it. Thank you.
Nymphs are probably important to finding the 'right'
river gods.**
In
Kraay & Hirmer, a smaller photo, fig. 159, shows a nymph patting the
head of
Gela's river on another
tetradrachm (about mid 5th c.). We don't know her name. She is
Jenkins 371. The
legend on the coin is SOSIPOLIS, but I'm not sure whether it is the bull-river that is city-saver or the nymph. Right now I'm searching the .pdf of
Nymphen u. Chariten (thanks again to
Gordian Guy; the url is
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=numismatique%20AND%20collection%3Atoronto&page=2or under Canadian libraries (it's from Toronto) you can run down the list of titles with the keyword '
numismatique' (it's on p. 2) to
Journal International d'Archéologie Numismatique, vol. 11, 1908.
I have
had this great desideratum,
N.u.Char.. for only about a week, and I shall spend this afternoon printing out the indexes and the plates. It is a large and slow pdf, and once you have a reference it is easy enough to read off the page. Don't worry about the
French title of the Greek journal (
nor is the article in Greek). It is in Imhoof-Blumer's lucid
German.
So far I haven't found another nymph treating a horned river so gratefully, but there are bull-headed rivers also at Campanian
Neapolis (whence any we might find on
Republican coins?) and elsewhere in western
Greece.
Pat L.
P.S.
Stratos: Coins like Roland's are listed by I-Bl op cit pp. 82-3, nos. 236-237, pl. V, nos. 57-58, esp. the nymph's
face on Pl. V, 57. Those are listed as drachmai, though their diameters are like Roland's coin.
** Apart from Western
Greece, and bulls with semi-human heads, however, I didn't locate much. Imhoof-B. did think that Sosipolis designated the Nymph crowning the man-headed
bull river of
Gela.
P.S. Cf further for mine, in CA, [
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and in that list also nos. 150-151, 189, 124, 224-5, and more (some may have been around twice). Also, of course,
AMNG I, 1, no. 476, Taf. II, 26.