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)

820 The owl of Athena

(fig. 627)1, on which a winged Athena advances towards the right,
one arm outstretched and covered with the aigis, the other raised
and brandishing the thunderbolt. Bronze coins of Prousias i (fig-
628)2, who was king of Bithynia from c. 228 to c. 183 B.C., vary the
type. A winged and helmeted Athena with lowered left hand holds
a shield bearing in relief a Gorgon's head, while with uplifted right
hand she crowns the king's name (in place of himself). Bronze
coins of Demetrios ii Nikator (fig. 62o)s, king of Syria, to be dated

Fig. 627. • Fig. 628. Fig. 629.

Fig. 630. Fig. 631.

1 F. Imhoof-Blumer 'Die Fliigelgestalten der Athena und Nike auf Miinzen' in
Num. Zeitschr. 1871 pp. 1 ff., 45 ff. pi. 5, 1 ('Gefliigelte Pallas'), Brit. Mus. Cat. C°"!
Central Greece p. 39 pi. 6, 3 and 4 ('Winged Pallas or Nike'), Hunter Cat. Coins ii- i>
no. 12 ('Winged Pallas (or Nike)'), McClean Cat. Coins ii. 327 no. 5626 pi. 203, 1 &n.^
no. 5627 ('Winged Nike'), Head Hist, num.2 p. 353 ('Winged Athena'). Fig- <>*7^.
from a specimen in my collection. The goddess intended is presumably Athena It**1
see G. Fougeres in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. hi. 1917 f. fig. 5050.

2 F. Imhoof-Blumer loc. cit. p. 7 pi. 5, 4, Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Pontus, etc. p- ^
pi. 37, 4 and 5, Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 259 nos. 3—6, Waddington—Babelon—^eI'^/,
Monn. gr. d'As. Min. i. 222 f. no. 16 pi. 30, 10 London and 11 Berlin, Mc Clean ^ ■
Coins iii. 39 no. 7528 pi. 258, 2, Head Hist, num."1 p. 519. Fig. 628 is from a spe«nl
in my collection. e(j

An example belonging to the French consul L. E. Cousinery (1747—1833) .f^10 gf,
wings on the helmet, not on the shoulders, of Athena (Mionnet Descr. de mid. ant. >>■ 5 e
no. 47). Athena has a winged helmet also on a terra-cotta mural relief in the .Jftp
(G. Fougeres in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. iii. 1925 fig. 5060: see further
Append. P p. 1006), and on coins of Herakleia in Lucania, Metapontum, Ark-es^ue
Amorgos, etc. (Imhoof-Blumer loc. cit. p. 44). The earliest instance occurs on a
electrum statir of the Ionian revolt, 500—494 B.C., obtained by Jameson from the ^
at Vurla (Klazomenai) (R. Jameson in the Rev. Num. 1911 p. 60 no. 4 P'" ^ ;
H. Dressel—K. Regling Die Miinzen von Prieue Berlin 1927 p. 17 ff. no. 1 P'
( = my fig. 631), C. Seltman Greek Coins London 1933 pp. 83, 88 pi. 12, 3)- Qat.

3 F. Imhoof-Blumer loc. cit. pp. 6 f„ 44 pi. 5, 3 ( = my fig. 629), Brit.
Coins Seleucid Kings of Syria p. 62 pi. 18, 12, E. Babelon Les rois de Syrie Parl
p. 159 nos. 1225 pi. 22, 15, 1226, 1227.