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Larissa, Thessaly, Greece, c. 450 - 420 B.C.
During religious games, the young men of Thessaly participated in bull jumping and bull wrestling. In bull wrestling, participants would jump from a horse, naked save a chlamys (cloak) and petasos (hat), to bring a bull down to the ground. The obverse shows a wrestler bringing down a bull and the reverse shows the horse running free after the leap was made. The game may have originated in Asia Minor and then traveled to Crete, where it is known the people of Thessaly learned the sport.GS95215. Silver drachm, BCD Thessaly II 171 (same dies, same die break); Obolos 7 p. 21 & pl. 2, 17 (same); Lorber Thessalian 46 (same); Weber 2835 (same); HGC 4 418 (S), VF, light toned, die break at bull fore-hooves, Larissa mint, weight 5.744g, maximum diameter 18.7mm, die axis 0o, c. 450 - 420 B.C.; obverse hero Thessalos restraining bull, both right, holding band around its head, nude but for billowing chlamys tied around his neck, petasos flying loose in the air behind him; reverse bridled horse running right, ΛAP/IΣAI in two lines above and below, all within shallow incuse square; ex Forum (2016), ex Helios Numismatik (Munich); scarce; SOLD
REFERENCES|
Klose, D. & G. Stumpf. Sport, Spiel, Sieg. (Munich, 1996).
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