The specific and the ambiguous

What can we say of royal ideology of bronze coin types of the earliest Seleucid kings

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ID22105236
AuthorsJenny Parr Shearer (University of Oxford, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume11
Issue1
Pages76-91
Publication date2023-05-27
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Ancient History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2324-8106 • E-ISSN: 2324-8114
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/jah-2022-0014
OpenAlexW4379932779
LanguageEN
References cited26

This article argues that the bronze coin types of the earliest Seleucid kings clearly illustrate the royal ideology of Seleucus I and his co-rulership with Antiochus I. This article considers the audience and meaning of the bronzes, as well as their minting patterns. After a discussion of the obverse and reverse types, this article focuses on two images: that of the bull and the anchor. The bull being both highly produced, and open to interpretation, and the anchor being a symbol more personal and specific to Seleucus I. This article then goes on to put forward that the bull/anchor types produced at Aï Khanoum/Bactra were a deliberate link on the part of Antiochus to the types produced by Seleucus I to create an imperial image

Ancient history · Art · Bronze · Epistemology · Ideology · Linguistics · Politics · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

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