Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1940)

254 The Daughters of Kekrops

cicala, though with less approximation to nature (F. Studniczka in the Jahrb. d. kais.
deuisch. arch. Inst. 1896 xi. 283 f. fig. 15 (=yaj-fig!_i62]ii

On the whole it may be concluded that the Utttx. ot Thouk. 1. 6 was a golden fibida
shaped like a cicala, that being the traditional, perhaps the tribal, badge of Ionian
autdchthones.

We are not, therefore, surprised to find that the tettix occurs as a private badge on
tetradrachms of Athens with two monograms struck c. 229—197 B.C. {Hunter Cat. Coins

Fig. 162.

ii. 59 no. 73 pi. 34, 6, nos. 74, 75, J. N. Svoronos Les monnaies dAthenes Munich IjP*
1926 pi. 37, 6—15) and again on tetradrachms and drachms with the names ot ^
brothers Lysan[dros] and Glaukos issued in 159 B.C. {Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Attica
pp. xliii, 62, Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 64 no. 114, J. N. Svoronos op. cit. pi. 48, 21—31, v£
the date see J. E. Kirchner 'Zur Datirung der athenischen Silbermiinzen' 1"
Zeitschr. f. Num. 1898 xxi. 82, J. Sundwall Untersuchungcn iibcr die aitischen M
des neueren Stiles Helsingfors 1908 p. 96, Head Hist, num.- p. 383. Fig. l6f 1S
a specimen in my collection). On bronze pieces the tittix is sometimes a 'symbol ((w ^
head of Athena Parthinos; rev. owl on amphora (Brit. Mus. Cat. Corns Attica etc Pi