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Appendix M
dr/rct, tov fxev kvkKov koct/ulov ^vvovres rbv 5e fxiaov ofpw ovveKTiKov tovtov kyadbv Aaifiova
<T7]IJ.a.LvovTes, Nero, who in Egypt called himself 6 'Ayadbs Aaip.uv rrjs \ oiKovp.evr}s (Corp.
inscr. Gr. iii no. 4699, 3 f. = Dittenberger Orient. Gr. inscr. sel. no. 666, 3 f.), struck
billon coins there with the reverse type of a serpent enfolding
corn-ears and poppy-heads, inscribed N EO • ATAO • AAIM -
veos 'A7a^6s Aaifxiov (Brit. A/us. Cat. Coins Alexandria p. 20 f.
pi. 26, 171 =my fig. 955, Hunter Cat. Coins iii. 413, Head Hist.
num.'1 p. 863, E. Saglio in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. i. 131
fig. 174, Harrison Themis p. 277 fig. 66). And a remarkable
contorniate medal shows him as the v<?os 'AiroWwv, vios Aibvvaos
(supra pp. 96 n. 3, 254), and i/eos 'Aya-dbs Aainwv rolled into one
■Pig- 9*55- ^n^" from a specimen in my collection. Obv. : Head of Nero
to right, with bow and arrow in front of him, and ivy-leaf behind
him. The usual compendium g here appears on Nero's face, the P encircling his
eye and the E marking his nostril and mouth. Also the muscles of his neck are
peculiarly rendered in the form of an ivy-leaf. Rev.: Bearded and crested snake
approaching a portable altar with dependent fillets). The antechamber of a Graeco-
Egyptian catacomb at Kom el Chougafa has its doorway flanked by two such snakes
equipped with thyrsos and winged caduceus (F. W. von Bissing Les bas-reliefs de Kom el
Chougafa Munich 1901 pi. 1). Another rock-cut tomb, known locally as 'the grave of
Fig. 956.
Adam and Eve,' in the garden of the late Sir John Antoniadis at Alexandreia has its
innermost niche occupied by the relief of a large snake coiled on a couch with gay-coloured
cushions (H. Thiersch Zwei antike Grabanlagen bei Alexandria Berlin 1904 p. 6 ff. figs.
6 f., p. 16 f. pi. 5 f.). This challenges comparison with a relief from Delos, which shows
a large bearded snake similarly installed on a couch between a bearded male figure
bearing phidle and cornu copiae to the right and a female figure bearing oinochde and cornu
copiae to the left: these personages, who both have a modius on their heads and are
draped alike in chiton and himdtion, should be interpreted as Agathos Daimon (hardly
Sarapis or Plouton) and Agathe Tyche (M. Buiard in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1907 xxxi.
525 ff. fig. 24, Reinach Re'p. Reliefs ii. 326 no. 2). Agathos Daimon is, in fact, here
represented both in his animal and in his human form. Similarly a marble statue at
Berlin, which portrays Antinoos as Agathos Daimon, makes him a youthful Dionysiac
figure resting his hand on a cornu copiae with a snake twined about it (Ant. Skulpt.
Berlin p. 146 f. no. 361 fig., Clarac Mus. de Sculpt, pi. 947 fig. 2427, E. Saglio in
Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. i. 131 fig. 173)- A small relief of s. iii A.D. in the Palazzo
Massimo alle Terme again groups Agathos Daimon with Agathe Tyche (F. von Duhn in
Matz—Duhn Ant. Bildw. in Rom iii. 144 no. 3764 says Sarapis (?) with Alexandreia (?).
F. Grossi Gondi ' Di una singolare rappresentazione mitologica sincretistica del culto
romano' in the Bull. Comm. Arch. Comun. di Roma 1910 xxxviii. 150—160 fig. 1
decides for Serapis with Isis (Isityche)). It represents the former as a coiled snake with
Appendix M
dr/rct, tov fxev kvkKov koct/ulov ^vvovres rbv 5e fxiaov ofpw ovveKTiKov tovtov kyadbv Aaifiova
<T7]IJ.a.LvovTes, Nero, who in Egypt called himself 6 'Ayadbs Aaip.uv rrjs \ oiKovp.evr}s (Corp.
inscr. Gr. iii no. 4699, 3 f. = Dittenberger Orient. Gr. inscr. sel. no. 666, 3 f.), struck
billon coins there with the reverse type of a serpent enfolding
corn-ears and poppy-heads, inscribed N EO • ATAO • AAIM -
veos 'A7a^6s Aaifxiov (Brit. A/us. Cat. Coins Alexandria p. 20 f.
pi. 26, 171 =my fig. 955, Hunter Cat. Coins iii. 413, Head Hist.
num.'1 p. 863, E. Saglio in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. i. 131
fig. 174, Harrison Themis p. 277 fig. 66). And a remarkable
contorniate medal shows him as the v<?os 'AiroWwv, vios Aibvvaos
(supra pp. 96 n. 3, 254), and i/eos 'Aya-dbs Aainwv rolled into one
■Pig- 9*55- ^n^" from a specimen in my collection. Obv. : Head of Nero
to right, with bow and arrow in front of him, and ivy-leaf behind
him. The usual compendium g here appears on Nero's face, the P encircling his
eye and the E marking his nostril and mouth. Also the muscles of his neck are
peculiarly rendered in the form of an ivy-leaf. Rev.: Bearded and crested snake
approaching a portable altar with dependent fillets). The antechamber of a Graeco-
Egyptian catacomb at Kom el Chougafa has its doorway flanked by two such snakes
equipped with thyrsos and winged caduceus (F. W. von Bissing Les bas-reliefs de Kom el
Chougafa Munich 1901 pi. 1). Another rock-cut tomb, known locally as 'the grave of
Fig. 956.
Adam and Eve,' in the garden of the late Sir John Antoniadis at Alexandreia has its
innermost niche occupied by the relief of a large snake coiled on a couch with gay-coloured
cushions (H. Thiersch Zwei antike Grabanlagen bei Alexandria Berlin 1904 p. 6 ff. figs.
6 f., p. 16 f. pi. 5 f.). This challenges comparison with a relief from Delos, which shows
a large bearded snake similarly installed on a couch between a bearded male figure
bearing phidle and cornu copiae to the right and a female figure bearing oinochde and cornu
copiae to the left: these personages, who both have a modius on their heads and are
draped alike in chiton and himdtion, should be interpreted as Agathos Daimon (hardly
Sarapis or Plouton) and Agathe Tyche (M. Buiard in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1907 xxxi.
525 ff. fig. 24, Reinach Re'p. Reliefs ii. 326 no. 2). Agathos Daimon is, in fact, here
represented both in his animal and in his human form. Similarly a marble statue at
Berlin, which portrays Antinoos as Agathos Daimon, makes him a youthful Dionysiac
figure resting his hand on a cornu copiae with a snake twined about it (Ant. Skulpt.
Berlin p. 146 f. no. 361 fig., Clarac Mus. de Sculpt, pi. 947 fig. 2427, E. Saglio in
Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. i. 131 fig. 173)- A small relief of s. iii A.D. in the Palazzo
Massimo alle Terme again groups Agathos Daimon with Agathe Tyche (F. von Duhn in
Matz—Duhn Ant. Bildw. in Rom iii. 144 no. 3764 says Sarapis (?) with Alexandreia (?).
F. Grossi Gondi ' Di una singolare rappresentazione mitologica sincretistica del culto
romano' in the Bull. Comm. Arch. Comun. di Roma 1910 xxxviii. 150—160 fig. 1
decides for Serapis with Isis (Isityche)). It represents the former as a coiled snake with