Serpentarium Mundi by Alexei Alexeev The Ancient Ophidian Iconography Resource (Mundus Vetus, 3000 BC - 650 AD)
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Figure III-6-aeg-008. Octogonal aegis with snakes-fringe and gorgoneion (the severed head of Gorgon Medusa).

Material: Denomination
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Mint: Issuer/Authority: Historical Period,
Date:
Collection:
Gold Didrachm/decalitron (reverse) Syracuse,
Sicily
Dionysius I
(r. 405-367 BC) (?)
Middle Classical,
405-400 BC
Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston

Source-Image(s): Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (www.mfa.org; © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston): Inventory № 32.541. The full list of numismatic and exonumic images' sources is available on the Coins introductory page.

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