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Appendix M
i-n-'iKK-qcnv ravrriv Aids TeK/iaipoiro elvai. Others besides Pausanias took the Agathos Theos
to be a sort of Zeus. Tiberius Claudius Xenokles, after serving as fire-bearer, set up an
altar at Epidauros in 224 a.d. to the local Agathos Theos, whom he represented as a
chthonian Zeus with a sceptre in his right hand, a comu copiae in his left, and a snake
wriggling below'(P. Cavvadias Fonilles d' £pidatcre Athenes 1893 i. 45 no. 44, Harrison
Themis p. 285 f. fig. 75, M. Frankel in the Inscr. Gr. Pelop. i no. 1059 numeral 7r^'
and circle no. 2 ib. p. 186 possibly meant for a snake emerging from its hole (?)); cp. another
block erected at Epidauros in 187 a.d. by Tiberius Claudius Pollio, after service as hiera-
polos, to the Agathos Theos and to Agathe (P. Cavvadias op. cit. i. 44^ nos. 41 — 411,
M. Frankel loc. cit. i no. 997 : Agathos Theos has numeral i-y' and circle no. 1 ib. p. 186
possibly meant for a snake emerging from its hole (?); Agathe has numeral The
same explanation might well be given of the Zeus-like Theos Megas at Odessos in Thrace,
Fig. 952.
Fig- 953-
where silver tetradrachms were struck in .r. ii b.c. with obv. a bearded male head wearing
a fillet, rev. the bearded god standing withphidle and comu copiae (B. Pick in the Jahrb.
d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1898 xiii. 155 f. pi. 10, 2o = my fig. 952, Head Hist, num.12,
p. 276 fig. 167, inscribed GEOY METAAOY OAH and KYPIA below. Hunter Cat.
Coins i. 418 pi. 28, 4 = my fig. 953 inscribed OEOYMETAAOY OAHIITflN and
KYPXA below. For later variants see Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Thrace etc. p. 137 ff. fig.,
Hunter Cat. Coins i. 418 f. pi. 28, 5, Head Hist, num.2 p. 276 f., and especially B. Pick
in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1898 xiii. 157 ff. pi. 10,
15 ff. and Ant. Miinz. Nord-Griechenlands i. 2. 524ff.pl. 4 f.).
Fourth-century sculptors more suo represented the Agathos
Daimon in younger form. Plin. nat. hist. 34. 77 mentions
among the bronzes of Euphranor to be seen at Rome ' a
statue of Bonus Eventus holding a patera in its right hand,
a corn-ear and poppies in its left.' Frohner Mid. emp. rom.
p. 35 f. fig. detected the type on a bronze medallion struck by
Hadrian (Gnecchi Medagl. Rom. ii. 3 no. 3) and Furtwangler
Fig- 954- Masterpieces of Gk. Sculpt, p. 3491". fig- 149 with pi. 6, 37, id.
Ant. Gemmen i pi. 44, 9 ff., ii. 211 f. illustrated it from gems and coins of Galba etc. (in,
fig. 954 I add the reverse of an unpublished copper of Antoninus Pius in my collection):
Appendix M
i-n-'iKK-qcnv ravrriv Aids TeK/iaipoiro elvai. Others besides Pausanias took the Agathos Theos
to be a sort of Zeus. Tiberius Claudius Xenokles, after serving as fire-bearer, set up an
altar at Epidauros in 224 a.d. to the local Agathos Theos, whom he represented as a
chthonian Zeus with a sceptre in his right hand, a comu copiae in his left, and a snake
wriggling below'(P. Cavvadias Fonilles d' £pidatcre Athenes 1893 i. 45 no. 44, Harrison
Themis p. 285 f. fig. 75, M. Frankel in the Inscr. Gr. Pelop. i no. 1059 numeral 7r^'
and circle no. 2 ib. p. 186 possibly meant for a snake emerging from its hole (?)); cp. another
block erected at Epidauros in 187 a.d. by Tiberius Claudius Pollio, after service as hiera-
polos, to the Agathos Theos and to Agathe (P. Cavvadias op. cit. i. 44^ nos. 41 — 411,
M. Frankel loc. cit. i no. 997 : Agathos Theos has numeral i-y' and circle no. 1 ib. p. 186
possibly meant for a snake emerging from its hole (?); Agathe has numeral The
same explanation might well be given of the Zeus-like Theos Megas at Odessos in Thrace,
Fig. 952.
Fig- 953-
where silver tetradrachms were struck in .r. ii b.c. with obv. a bearded male head wearing
a fillet, rev. the bearded god standing withphidle and comu copiae (B. Pick in the Jahrb.
d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1898 xiii. 155 f. pi. 10, 2o = my fig. 952, Head Hist, num.12,
p. 276 fig. 167, inscribed GEOY METAAOY OAH and KYPIA below. Hunter Cat.
Coins i. 418 pi. 28, 4 = my fig. 953 inscribed OEOYMETAAOY OAHIITflN and
KYPXA below. For later variants see Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Thrace etc. p. 137 ff. fig.,
Hunter Cat. Coins i. 418 f. pi. 28, 5, Head Hist, num.2 p. 276 f., and especially B. Pick
in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1898 xiii. 157 ff. pi. 10,
15 ff. and Ant. Miinz. Nord-Griechenlands i. 2. 524ff.pl. 4 f.).
Fourth-century sculptors more suo represented the Agathos
Daimon in younger form. Plin. nat. hist. 34. 77 mentions
among the bronzes of Euphranor to be seen at Rome ' a
statue of Bonus Eventus holding a patera in its right hand,
a corn-ear and poppies in its left.' Frohner Mid. emp. rom.
p. 35 f. fig. detected the type on a bronze medallion struck by
Hadrian (Gnecchi Medagl. Rom. ii. 3 no. 3) and Furtwangler
Fig- 954- Masterpieces of Gk. Sculpt, p. 3491". fig- 149 with pi. 6, 37, id.
Ant. Gemmen i pi. 44, 9 ff., ii. 211 f. illustrated it from gems and coins of Galba etc. (in,
fig. 954 I add the reverse of an unpublished copper of Antoninus Pius in my collection):