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A Thracian Portrait1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

J. W. Crowfoot
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When I first saw this head, I was at once struck by its marked individuality: if any portrait could be recognized from a coin, it seemed to be this, for features so personal the poorest engraver could scarcely conceal. My hopes were realized, as a comparison of the accompanying photographs with the coin reproduced beneath will I hope prove.

In both we see the same treatment of the hair in front, the same fashion of wearing it behind: the long upper lip, the nose with its curiously distended nostrils—the marble preserving just enough to make the agreement certain—the long ears, the deep lines on the cheek, the shape of jaw and forehead, the prominent Adam's apple; these too are common to both.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 17 , November 1897 , pp. 321 - 326
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1897

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page 321 note 2 Cavvadias, , Catalogue, 531Google Scholar; of Pentelic marble; found in Athens in 1837.

page 321 note 3 Imhoof-Blumer, , Porträtköpfe etc. Taf. 2Google Scholar, 17.

page 322 note 1 It is interesting to contrast it with another Thraoian head, the Capitoline portrait of the Emperor Maximin, the face of a man who like Kotys had come into not unfriendly contact with a high civilization, yet had by no means lost his barbarism. The differences between the two are as instructive as the points of resemblance.

page 322 note 2 C.I.A. iii. 1, 552; ib. 555. Loewy, , I.G.B., 314Google Scholar, 315. This writer has criticised his predecessors exhaustively, and so I have tried not to repeat arguments of his, to which I have nothing to add.

page 322 note 3 Beschreibung der Antiken Münzen (Berlin), i. 334, 335.

page 323 note 1 For the form ἑατόν, cf. Homolle, , B.C.H., viii. p. 133Google Scholar, and contrast with Loewy, , I.G.B. 316Google Scholar.

page 323 note 2 Cic. Verr. ii. 1, 24. The figures in brackets after the king's names are inserted for the convenience of the present paper, and do not correspond with any others.

page 323 note 3 Dion. Cassius, xli., 51, 63.

page 323 note 4 ib. xlvii., 25.

page 323 note 5 Appian, iv., 75.

page 323 note 6 Rangabé, Antiquités Helléniques, ii., No. 1236; from Bizye.

page 323 note 7 Mommsen, , Ephem. Epigraph, ii. (1875), p. 253Google Scholar. seq.

page 324 note 1 Cf. Loewy, loc. cit.

page 324 note 2 Brit. Mus. Catalogue of Coins, Thrace, p. 208.

page 324 note 3 Cf. reff. above.

page 324 note 4 Strabo, xii. 3, 29. p. 556. Mommsen wishes to change this text in accordance with his theory.

page 324 note 5 Tacitus, , Ann. iii. 88Google Scholar.

page 324 note 6 Dion. liv. 20, 34.

page 324 note 7 Ep. ex. Ponto, II. ix., 11. 2, 19.

page 324 note 8 Dumont, , Mélanges, pp. 201Google Scholar, 202.

page 324 note 9 C.I.A. iii. 114, 1077, 1284.

page 325 note 1 Vitruvius, v. ix. i., C.I.G. i. 357 shows that they were honoured in the same way. Cf. also Hertzberg, , Geschichte, i. p. 436Google Scholar.

page 325 note 2 Loewy, 316.

page 325 note 3 H.N. xxxiv. 86.

page 325 note 4 Dion, xlvii. 20.