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The Ancient Ophidian Iconography Resource (Mundus Vetus, 3000 BC - 650 AD) |
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| Set III-2-gip-001. In Greco-Roman iconography, Phytopode Giant was a plant-legged composite creature. In the numismatic corpus, the Phytopode Giant is registered exclusively on the Greco-Bactrian coinage of the Hellenistic period. The relevant image-text concordances (e.g. narrative association with the sun-god Helios, moon-goddess Selene, and dawn-goddess Eos as well as with the mountains (rocks) and plant-generating Giant's blood) suggest the possible identification of the main subject as Alcyoneus or Picolous.
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Abrasax [ΙΑΩ] ·
Baal Arwad ·
Cecrops ·
Demeter·Thermuthis ·
Giant (Ophiopode) ·
Harpocrates·Sobek ·
Isis·Thermuthis ·
Lernean Hydra ·
Spirit (Pterophytopode) ·
Scylla ·
Serapis·Agathodaemon ·
Triton, Nereus
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| Source-Image(s): The set is researched, compiled, and designed by Alexei Alexeev. The full list of numismatic and exonumic images' sources is available on the Coins introductory page. The general list of the compendium's images' sources is available on the Sources introductory page. |
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