Etruscan

ETRUSCAN / (Text translated by Google) / Here is a series of characters and attributes from all Macedonian currency. The oldest are from 478 BC and the most recent 350 years BC. The layout of the table is that of the Etruscan period. From left to right: the lyre of Apollo , ithyphallic a Silenus carrying a stick of worship, an altar , a nymph who carries on his thigh a amulet and takes a fish triscèle aggressive, tripod sacred, a horseman dressed in hunting, he drinks wine at a kylix and one of his spears, sits a bird begins to swallow a salamander, a centaur, dive which reacts with his fly swatter or a fan, it holds the sacred double ax in the other hand, the obverse of a drachma, which had a swastika in its center, it has been transformed into triscèle, a goat, a hunting dog, a zoomorphic harp canine, two birds in flight ... The painting is signed but not monogrammed.
Triscèle: The triscèle or triskele is the tripartite division of a circle similar to the quadripartition the swastika with arms bent. The association in this symbol of the rotation and turning is a predominant effect of dynamic directional.
Kylix: in ancient Greek drinking cup widespread, shallow and flared, it was mostly used for tasting wine in symposia, very typical of the many banquet scenes, until the late fourth century BC.