Das sogenannte "Horn" des Elagabal - Die Spitze eines Stierpenis. Eine Umdeutung als Ergebnis fachübergreifender Forschung

Abstract

The slightly bent, longish object fixed to the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus' radiate crown or laurel wreath in his Imperial coinage is not a horn, as first in 1859 Cohen had surmised by the resemblance to certain representations of hellenistic rulers. It is a bull's penis, which had a highly religious symbolic value. In the sequence of the emperor's subsequent loss of power the Symbol is vanishing from his coinage

Suggested citation

Krengel, Elke: Das sogenannte "Horn" des Elagabal - Die Spitze eines Stierpenis. Eine Umdeutung als Ergebnis fachübergreifender Forschung. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 47 (1997), pp. 53–72.