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was prepared to dispute with Crete the honour of having been
his birth-place1: Mount Sipylos2, Mount Tmolos (fig. 118)3, and
Mount Messogis (figs. 119, 121)4 were in that respect rivals of Dikte

Fig. i2i. Fig. 122.

and Ide. It is probable that the legends of Zeus' birth and
infancy were localised on the mountains of Phrygia also ; for coins
of Akmoneia (figs. 122, 123)5, Apameia (fig. 124)6, Laodikeia on the

example is in the British Museum [Ant. Terrakotten pi. 25, cp. pi. 135 a variant of the
second century in the Louvre).

I figure two specimens of the second type: (a) fig. 116 (after O. Benndorf in the
Jahresh. d. oest. arch. Inst. 1902 v. 151 f. fig. 38) a fragment of terra-cotta, the design of
which differs in some respects from that of the reliefs enumerated by Overbeck Gr.
Kunstmyth. Zeus p. 336 f. Atlas pi. 4, 4: the infant is named Z6YC and is seated on a
rock with a wingless thunderbolt behind him.—(b) Fig. 117 the corresponding part of
the above-mentioned relief from Cervetri (?) acquired by the British Museum in 1891
{Brit. Mus. Cat. Terracottas p. 379 no. D 501 pi. 39, H. B. Walters The Art of the
Romans London 1911 p. 136 pi. 58): the inscription is here ZGY[C].

1 Lyd. de mens. 4. 71 p. 123, i2ff. Wiinsch.

2 Append. B Lydia. 3 lb.

4 lb. The coin of Tralleis here figured for the first time (fig. 119) is at Paris (Mionnet
Descr. de mid. ant. Suppl. vii. 47r no. 715): I am indebted to M. Babelon for the cast
from which my illustration was made. ...TPAAAIA NHN and AIOGTON A I.

5 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Phrygia pp. xxiv, 20 pi. 4, 4 a copper struck by Trebonianus
Gallus A KM O N EHN, Head Hist, num.* p. 663 (fig. 122). F. Lenormant Monnaies
et medailles Paris 1883 p. 181 fig., E. Babelon in the Rev. Num. 189: ix. 38 f. pi. 4, 4
(fig. 123) a bronze medallion of Gordianus iii showing Rhea with her foot raised on a rock.

6 Mionnet Descr. de med. ant. iv. 238 no. 268 and 239 no. 270, Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins
Phrygia p. xl, Head Hist, titwi.2 p. 667, Muller-Wieseler Denkm. d. alt. Kunst\\. r6 f.