Editing Crinisus (section)

==Coins==
Ancient coins from [[Segesta]] often have a dog on one side, and the head of a woman on the other. The similarity between these images and the Crinisus myth has led to academic debate about whether or not they depict Crinisus and the eponymous Segesta.<ref name="Bottari 2023"/>

Coins of this type originated from Segesta after the defeat of the [[Carthage|Carthiginians]] at the [[Battle of Himera (480 BC)|Battle of Himera]] in 480 BCE. The first of these coins are [[didrachma]]s produced from 475 BCE, which show a dog sniffing the ground; from 460 BCE they also produced coins with a dog looking back, from 455 BCE looking forward, and from 430 BCE following a scent. Around 415–400 BCE, new designs started to appear, such as [[litra]] with a standing dog with a shell and a [[gorgoneion]] or solar head on one side, and a three-quarter woman's head surrounded by a laurel wreath on the other. From 412/410–400 BCE, hunting scenes appear, such as a dog carrying the head of a deer on didrachmas, hunting a [[hare]] on smaller denominations, and a hunter (sometimes identified as Crinisus) accompanied by a dog. This may reflect increasingly aggressive attitudes between the settlements of western Sicily around this time, including territorial disputes between Segesta and [[Selinunte]]. Coins with these dog motifs continued to be produced until around 390 BCE.<ref name="Bottari 2023"/>

These Segestan designs spread to [[Eryx (Sicily)|Eryx]] by 460 BCE, and [[Palermo|Panormus]] and [[Motya]] from 430 BCE. Around 415 BCE, a coin from [[Alikai]] depicts a [[nymph]] sacrificing a dog or wolf on an altar, and [[litrae]] from Eryx at the same time show a dog standing proudly on one side, and on the other a full-length [[Aphrodite]] seated on a chair, and either holding a dove or stretching her hand out to [[Eros]], who crowns her.<ref name="Bottari 2023">{{cite book | editor1-first=Ivana | editor1-last=Fiore | editor2-first=Francesca | editor2-last=Lugli | first=Alessandra | last=Bottari | chapter=The Image of the Dog on Ancient Coins in the Mediterranean Area | title=Dogs, Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Perspective | isbn=9781803273556 | year=2023 | publication-place=Oxford | publisher=Archaeopress Publishing | pages=347–355 | url=https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803273549 | doi=10.32028/9781803273549 | doi-access=free }}</ref>

[[Numismatist]]s traditionally considered the woman to depict a local [[nymph]], the [[eponym]]ous Segesta, though [[Karl Galinsky]] argues that it may be the goddess [[Artemis]], who [[Cicero]] reported had a famous statue at Segesta. [[Aphrodite Urania]] has also been suggested.<ref name="Galinsky 2015">{{cite book | last=Galinsky | first=Karl | chapter=The Trojan Landing in Sicily | title=Aeneas, Sicily, and Rome | publisher=Princeton University Press | series=Princeton Legacy Library | year=2015 | isbn=978-1-4008-7663-1 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vSPWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA68 | page=68 }}</ref>