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)

856 The aigis and Gorgdneion of Athena

F'g- 675 a billon statir of Lesbos c. 550—440 B.C. (McClean Cat. Corns iii. 103
no- 7955 P1- 275- !)•

Fig. 676 a silver 'statir of Neapolis in Makedonia c. 500—411 B.C. (McClean Cat.
Corns ii. 2 no. 3075 pi. 112, 8).

Fig. 677 a silver hemidrachm of Neapolis in Makedonia c. 411—350 B C. (McClean
Cat. Coins ii. 3 no. 3078 pi. 112, 11).

Fig. 678 a silver drachm of Abydos c. 480—450 B.C. (Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Troas,
etc. p. 1 pi. 1, 2).

Fig. 679 a silver drachm of Apollonia ad Rhyndacum in Mysia c. 450—<r.'330 B.C. (cp.
Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Mysia p. 8 pi. 2, 2).

Fig. 680 a silver hemidrachm of Parion in Mysia c. 400—300 B.C. or later (Brit.
Mus. Cat. Coins Mysia p. 95 pi. 21, 8).

Fig. 681 a silver hemidrachm of Parion in Mysia c. 400—300 B.C. or later (McClean
Cat. Coins iii. 58 no. 7654 pi. 263, 8).

Fig. 682 a silver hemidrachm of Parion in Mysia c. 400—300 B.C. or later (from a
specimen in the Fitzwilliam Museum).

Fig. 683 a silver piece of ten units from Populonia in Etruria c. 450—350 B.C.
(McClean Cat. Coins i. 18 no. 123 pi. 8, 1). On the Etruscan Gorgdneion as inspired by
the early coinage of Athens see the illuminating remarks of C. T. Seltman Athens its
History and Coinage p. 130 ff.

Fig. 684 a silver piece of twenty units from Populonia in Etruria c. 350—280 B.C.
(ii. i. 19 no. 128 pi. 8, 6).

Fig. 685 (from a specimen of mine) and fig. 686 (from another in the Fitzwilliam
Museum) are Roman denarii struck by L. Plautius Plancus c. 47 B.C. (Babelon Monn.
rep. rom. ii. 325 ff. nos. 14—16 figs. (no. 16 in gold is a forgery), M. Bahrfeldt Nachtriigt
und Berichtigungen zur Miinzkunde der rb'mischen Republik Wien 1897 p. 205 ff. pi- 9>
217 and 218, Brit. Mus. Cat. Rom. Coins Rep. i. 516 f. nos. 4005, 4006, 4009 pi. 50, 15'
16, 17). It appears that C. Plautius Venox, who was censor along with Appius Claudius
Caecus in 312 B.C., had allowed the flute-players to wear masks at their festival the
Quinquatrus Minusculae on the Ides of June, when they roamed about the city and
assembled at the temple of Minerva (Ov. fast. 6. 651 ff. with Sir J. G. Frazer's com-
mentary ad loc). The mask on the coins of L. Plautius is treated as a Gorgdneion of the
middle type and often shows a couple of snakes in the hair.

Fig. 687 a bronze coin of Seleukos i Nikator (312—280 B.C.) (Brit. Mus. Cat. Cot"s
Seleucid Kings of Syria p. 6 f. pi. 2, 14, P. Gardner Types of Gk. Coins p. 195 f. pi- r4> ^'
cp. McClean Cat. Coins iii. 325 no. 9246 pi. 335, 9).

Fig. 688 a bronze coin of Amphipolis issued in imperial times but without emper°r s
head (from a specimen of mine, cp. Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Macedonia, etc. p. 48 nos. 44
and 45, McClean Cat. Coins ii. 29 no. 3227 pi. 117, 22).

Fig. 689 a bronze coin of Chabakta in Pontus issued in the time of Mithradates
Eupator (120—63 B-c-) (McClean Cat. Coins iii. 8 no. 7382 pi. 251, 4, cp. Brit. M"1'
Cat. Coins Pontus, etc. p. 27 pi. 5, 4, Waddington—Babelon—Reinach Monn. gr- d
Min. i. 77 pi. 11, 23, id.'- i. 105 pis. 11, 23 and K, 3).

Fig. 690 a Roman denarius struck by L. Cossutius Sabula c. 54 B.C. (from a specimen
of mine, cp. Babelon Monn. rep. rom. i. 437 f. no. 1 fig., Brit. Mus. Cat. Rom- Cot"s
Rep. i. 405 f. no. 3324 pi. 42, 22). ,.

Fig. 691 a silver drachm of Rhodes c. 304—166 B.C. (Brit. Mus. Cat. ^°
Caria, etc. p. 245 pi. 39, 2, cp. McClean Cat. Coins iii. 205 no. 8598 f. pi. 300> 20
Magistrate's name TO PrO Z.

Fig. 692 a silver drachm of Rhodes c. 304—166 B.C. (Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Ca° >
etc. p. 245 pi. 39, 1). Magistrate's name AI N HTHP. On this coin the hair of Heh°s
is markedly snaky and two snakes are tied under his chin. .

Fig. 693 a silver drachm (?) of Rhodes c. 87—84 B.C. (Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Can »
etc. p. cxii pi. 45, 3). Magistrate's name rOPTOZ. On this coin the assimilat'°n