Artemis Tauropolos
O: bare head of Augustus | R: Artemis Tauropolos riding bull |
bronze coin struck by Augustus in Amphipolis 31 - 27 BC; ref.: RPC 1626 |
Artemis Tauropolos, in ancient Greece, was an epithet for the goddess Artemis, variously interpreted as worshipped at Tauris, or pulled by a yoke of bulls, or hunting bull goddess. A statue of Artemis "Tauropolos" in her temple at Brauron in Attica was supposed to have been brought from the Taurians by Iphigenia. Tauropolia was also a festival of Artemis in Athens.
There was a Tauropolion, a temple in a temenos sacred to Artemis Tauropolos, in the north Aegean island of Doliche (now Ikaria).
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- LSJ
- A handbook of classical drama By Philip Whaley Harsh Page 220 ISBN 978-0-8047-0380-2
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