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fact that Zeus too was a giver of fertility1. But this identification2
though favoured by the satraps and generals, did not adequately
express the popular conception of Sandas, whose prototype in the
Hittite religion appears to have been the son-god rather than the
father-god3. Hence side by side with Zeus, the supreme dispenser
of all things good, the Tarsians worshipped Herakles, the more
human and approachable averter of all things evil. The coins
struck by Datames, which represented Balal-tars as a Zeus-like
deity seated on a throne, supplement this obverse type by a reverse
of exceptional interest (figs. 454, 455)- Within a square frame
surmounted by antefixes etc. and probably intended for a sacred
edifice are two male figures with an incense-burner between them.

in my collection (fig. 460): obv. [KAISAPEHN rp ?] I ANAZAPBH head of
Zeus, laureate, to right; rev. 6T0YC ) BAP (=132=113/114 a.d.) head of Tyche,
veiled and turreted); and it would seem reasonable to conclude that on the akropolis

Fig. 460.

of Anazarbos there was an important cult of Zeus, who had here dispossessed Olymbros.
See further A. von Domaszewski 'Zeus '0\u/3pios' in the Num. Zeitschr.ign pp. 10—12.

1 A coin of Titiopolis in Kilikia, struck by Hadrian, shows Zeus with sceptre and
cornu copiae (fig. 461 = W. Wroth in the Num. Chron. Third Series 1900 xx. 293 no. 29

pi. 14, 10, Imhoof-Blumer Kleinas. Miinzen ii. 494, Head
Hist, num.2 p. 734)—an attribute which he there shares with
the local Tyche [Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lycaonia, etc. p. 231
pi. 38, 7) : cp. supra p. 501 f. pi. xxxi, Zeus on a copper
of the Italian Lokroi enthroned with a sceptre in his left
hand and a cornu copiae behind him {Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins
Italy p. 369, Garrucci Mon. It. ant. p. 161 pi. 113, 13), an
archaistic Iupiter bearing a patera in his right hand, a cornu
copiae in his left, on a base at Berlin which probably dates
from the reign of Commodus and is inscribed I. o. m. I
ig. 401. summo I exsuper[an]!tissim[o] (R. Kekule von Stradonitz

'Uber das Relief mit der Inschrift C. I. L. vi. 426 ' in the Sitzungsber. d. Akad. d. IViss,
Berlin 1901 p. 387 ff., F. Cumontin the Archiv f. Rel. 1906 ix. 323 ff., A. v. Domaszewski
id. 1911 xiv. 313, Reinach Rip. Reliefs ii. 32 no. 2), another archaising Iupiter, with
kdlathos on head, patera in left hand, over which hovers a butterfly, and cornu copiae
in right, on an engraved gem at St Petersburg (L. Stephani in the Compte-rendu St. Pit.
1873 p. 150, id. 1877, p. too, Reinach Pierres Gravies p. 134 no. 3 pi. 123, cp. ib. p. 124
no. 3 pi. 120), and a stone statuette from Frangissa in Kypros showing Ba'al-hamman
between two rams with a cornu copiae in his left hand (Ohnefalsch-Richter Kypros p. 474
pi. 191, 4, cp. supra p. 354 pi. xxvi, 1).

2 If Sandas at Ivriz had corn-ears, grapes and a plough {supra p. 594 f.), Zeus had
corn-ears at Heliopolis {stipra pp. 552, 558 f., 569, 572), grapes and a plough in Phrygia
{supra pp. 4 n. 2, 399 f.).

3 J. Garstang The Land of the Hittites London 1910 pp. 195, 238, 240, 378 f.