Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1925)

Apfbllon and Artemis 491

are an amphora, a palm, and five apples, p. 166 no. 38 similar, p. 166 no. 39 obv. Similar
inscription and bust; rev. KOINON 0PA AAEZAN EN*I AITTTTOTT OAI

Similar type: but the urn on tha^table contains five apples, and beneath the table
are a palm and> an amphora. B. V. Head describes the apples as ' balls or discs.'
G.^-Macdonald i{u the Hunter Cat. Coins i. 444 no. 10 Caracalla, 445 no. 13 Klagabalos
calls them 'balls', of Ankyra in Galatia {Brit. Mies. Cat. Coins Galatia, etc. p. 13 pi. 3,

1 ( = my fig. 375) obv. AN.......AVTOVCTOC Bust of Caracalla to right, laureate;

rev. fvHTPOTT [ANK]VPA'E IEOTTV0I A Agonistic table, on which is an urn,
containing a palm-branch, placed between two purses : beneath the table are five apples,
p. 13 pi. 3, 2 obv. ANTHNIN OCTTIOCAVr Similar bust; rev. MHTPOTTO
AEANKVPAE IEOTTV0 IA Agonistic urn inscribed ATHN, containing a palm-
branch : above the urn are five apples. W. Wroth describes the apples as 'balls,' as does
Anson Num. Gr. i. 60 no. 683 pi. 10, i. 66 no. 724 pi. ri), and of Tralleis in Lydia
(Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 357 no. iSr obv. 4>POV CABTP A N KVAA6 I N A
Bust of Tranquillina to right; rev. TPAAAI ANflN beneath an agonistic table, on
which are five apples between two prize-wreaths. In the field to left and right TTV0IA
andOAYMTTIA. Above, ETTT ? In the exergue, dp | AITTTTOV K€ NTA ). Thus all
the evidence lor this custom, whether literary or numismatic, belongs to the second and
third centuries of our era,—unless indeed Anth. Pal. 9. 357 can be attributed to Cicero's
client A. Licinius Archias, which is very doubtful (see R. Reitzenstein in Pauly—Wissowa
Real-Ene. ii. 463 f.).

(6) Coins of Eleuthernai in Crete, from c. 480 B.C. onwards, show Apollon holding a
spherical object (J. N. Svoronos Numismatique de la Crete ancienne Macon 1890 i. 130 ff.

Fig- 376. Fig. 377.

pi. 11, 4—6, 8—11, 14—18, 22—30, pi. 12, 1—5, 7, Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Crete etc.
p. 33 ff. pi. 8, 5—8, 10—13, Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 182 f. pi. 41, 15—17, Head Hist,
num? p. 464 f.), which has been variously interpreted. It is described as malum or
pomum by the older numismatists (see also Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Apollon p. 307 n. a),
including Eckhel Doctr. num. vet!2 ii. 311 f. and Rasche Lex. Num. iii. 586, Suppl. ii.
748 ; and its resemblance to the apple held in the hand e.g. of Aphrodite or Venus on
other coins (Rasche op. cit. vi. 1702, x. 841, 847 ff., 855, 859, 870, 8756°.) is evident.
Midler—Wieseler Denkm. d. alt. Kunst ii. 94 pi. 12, 135" regards the small round thing
held by the standing Apollon as an ' Apfel,' the relatively larger round thing held by the
seated Apollon as a ' Diskos ' or a ' Kugel'—the one reminiscent of Hyakinthos, the
other a cosmic or solar globe. B. Pick in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1898 xiii.
173 n. 128 says: 'die Art, wie er den Gegenstand halt, ist sehr verschieden, zuweilen
aber lasst sie die Deutung des Attributs als Salbgefiiss oder als Granatapfel ganz unmoglich
erscheinen.' J. N. Svoronos op. cit. i. 130 ff. calls it in succession 'peut-etre une pierre,'
'une pierre,' and ' un disque.' W. Wroth in the Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Crete etc.
pp. xxvi ff., 33 ff., G. Macdonald in the Hunter Cat. Coins loc. cit., and B. V. Head in his
Hist, num.2 loc. cit. all make it a ' stone,; presumably influenced by the stone-throwing
Talos on coins of Phaistos and the stone-throwing Minotaur on coins of Knossos (supra i.
720 f. figs. 534—536). J. de Foville in the Rev. Num. iv Serie 1902 vi. 454 ff. fig.
( = my fig. 376) publishes a copper of Eleuthernai, on which Apollon's head is surrounded
by a radiate circle (cp. supra i. 544 n. 9), and infers that the sphere held by him may