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given was that, when he died, all men would be destroyed. The PhrygiallS
hearing- it made great lamentation. Hence the proverb " to cry as in the days
of Annakos" used of those who mourn overmuch. When the flood came m
Deukalion's time, all were destroyed. But when the ground was dry again, Zeus
bade Prometheus and Athena to make images of clay, and calling" upon the
winds he bade them to breathe upon all these and so bring them to life- The
place got its name Ikonion from the fact that the "images" were designe
there1.'

It seems probable that neither of these versions was wh°l ^
independent of Jewish tradition. Indeed, Buttmann2 more than

Fig. 33°-

Fig- 332- Fig. 333-

a century since concluded that Annakos, who lived for oVCl^e of
hundred years, was none other than Enoch, who reached th^^ the
three hundred and sixty-five3. And it is easy to surmise ^ Qc
nasalised form of the name, Ndnnakos, arose under the m ^Qty is
Noah. Be that as it may, the popularity of the Hebrew ^toS*
sufficiently established by the remarkable coins of Apameia

1 Steph. Byz. s.v. 'Ubviov. Cp. el. mag. p. 470, 55 ff. vu-jn\oa^

2 P. Buttmann Mythologus Berlin 1828 i. i76, citing W. Baxter 1

in Miscellaneous Tracts on Antiquity London 1779 i. 206. fjS

3 Gen. 5. 23. , . d liturgi'

4 H. Leclercq in F. Cabrol Diclionnaire d'archiologie chrilienne et ___2533 apPeI/;„
1907 i. 2. 2513—2518 figs. 825—827 discusses these coins and ib. pp. *5.aI^#V dc ""

a full bibliography of them, which ranges from O. Falconerius JJtss