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Thessaly, Thessalian League.
Mid-late 1st century BC. Æ tetrachalkon, 13.22 g. Eubiotos and Petraios, magistrates. Laureate head of Zeus right / Taurokathapsia scene: The hero Thessalos jumping from his horse, in background galloping right, onto a bull running right, the head of which he restrains with a band held in both of his hands. BCD Thessaly II 897.1-4. Good very fine. This scene depicts a dangerous moment in the taurokathapsia, as described in the BCD catalogue: "The man has just jumped off his horse, which is galloping away in the background, and has put the band around the bull's forehead... we can see one of his legs dangling in the air below the bull. His body is hidden by the bull's body, but we can see his head and his arms, especially his right one."
Mid-late 1st century BC. Æ tetrachalkon, 13.22 g. Eubiotos and Petraios, magistrates. Laureate head of Zeus right / Taurokathapsia scene: The hero Thessalos jumping from his horse, in background galloping right, onto a bull running right, the head of which he restrains with a band held in both of his hands. BCD Thessaly II 897.1-4. Good very fine. This scene depicts a dangerous moment in the taurokathapsia, as described in the BCD catalogue: "The man has just jumped off his horse, which is galloping away in the background, and has put the band around the bull's forehead... we can see one of his legs dangling in the air below the bull. His body is hidden by the bull's body, but we can see his head and his arms, especially his right one."