Bicorporates on Coins. Reflections on their Occurrence and Use

This paper focuses on coins with bicorporates – composite animals with one head and two bodies – a fascinating but rather neglected category of numismatic objects. The first known bicorporates appeared on Mesopotamian cylinder seals around the third millennium BC. They subsequently a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Etsuko Zakoji
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Lund University 2022-06-01
Series:ICO Iconographisk Post
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Online Access:https://journals.lub.lu.se/ico/article/view/25690/22590