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instructive for the light that it sheds on a numerous series of
wheel-types in the coinage of Greece and Italy1. The toothed or
radiate wheel is found once more as a countermark on a coin of
Populonia in Etruria (fig. 184)2. It is also known as a motif on

Fig. 186.

'Dipylon ' pottery (fig. 185)3, where again it may well have denoted
the sun.

The magic wheel as seen on Greek vase-paintings (fig. 186)4 has

1 See Appendix D.

2 Garrucci Mon. It. ant. p. 55 pi. 74, 2.

3 F. Poulsen Dipylongraber und Dipylonvasen p. 117. I figure a sherd from Delos
after F. Poulsen and C. Dugas in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1911 xxxv. 371 fig. 29.

4 {a) Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iv. 136 ff. no. F 279 an Apulian krater. (b) lb. iv. 186 f.
no. F 399 an Apulian lekythos. (c) lb. iv. 180 no. F 373 pi. 12, x an Apulian prochoos,
Tischbein Hamilton Vases iii pi. 1, J. Millingen Ancient Unedited Momiments London