Bonner, SMA – PDF, D. 304.

Bonner 64

Obv. Rider design sketchily incised and partly obscured by corrosion; no significant variations. Inscription, εἷς θεὸς ὁ νικῶν τὰ κα[κά, the last letters omitted purposely, since there is room for them. This side not shown.

Rev. Large, long-legged bird, probably meant for an ostrich, standing to r. with bill open, about to attack a large spotted snake erect on its tail. Another, thinner, snake is between it and the bird, another, still smaller, behind the bird's legs. The bird is connected by a long upward-curving line with an altarlike structure behind. This line should probably be a straight or sagging cord, like that on the digestive amulets of the ibis and altar type. It can hardly be a plume growing from the back of the bird's head. The ostrich has nothing of the sort. Above, πινω, probably for πεινῶ, “I am hungry.”

Bronze. Spade-shaped plaque, 51 X 35.

From a cast.