The stilt-birds (herons, cranes, storks or ibises) represented on many Greek coinages, especially of Kroton, were interpreted as etymological references or symbols of local landscape or watery cults. Neverthless, the analysis of their...
moreThe stilt-birds (herons, cranes, storks or ibises) represented on many Greek coinages, especially of Kroton, were interpreted as etymological references or symbols of local landscape or watery cults. Neverthless, the analysis of their distribution and literary sources carried out in accordance with the method of the Lexicon Iconographicum Nu-mismaticae makes preferable a symbolic interpretation, as pre-announcement of the good will of the gods with which they are joined, in accordance, at Kroton, with the Pythagorean doctrines.
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I trampolieri (aironi, gru, cicogne o ibis) posti su molte monetazioni greche, in particolare di Crotone, sono stati inter-pretati come riferimenti etimologici o simboli del paesaggio o di culti acquatici locali. Tuttavia, l’analisi della loro distribuzione e delle fonti letterarie, condotta secondo il metodo del Lexicon Iconographicum Numismaticae, rende preferibile una interpretazione simbolica come preannunziatori della volontà positiva degli dei con cui sono associati, in accordo, a Crotone, con le dottrine pitagoriche
