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ARGOS.
367
of Argos, where such an interpretation is highly improbable (see Imhoof-
Blurner, Num. Zeit., 1877)- If is perhaps a Temple-key.
Give. b.c. 400-322.
The coins of Argos in this period are among the most beautiful in
Greece, as might be expected from the high standing of Argos as a school
of art.
Head of Hera wearing stephanos on
which floral ornament (Fig. 241).
Id. (Gardner, Types, Pl. VIII., 35, 40).
Id.
Id.
ARAEION, ARTEIDN andAPTEIHN
Two dolphins in opposite directions ;
between them wolf, helmet, grapes,
ivy-branch, crab, quiver, tripod, bu-
cranium, swan, human head, lyre, or
pomegranate, etc.... At Stater.
APTEIflN Diomedes, naked but for
chlamys, grasping sword, stepping
stealthily along and carrying the
palladium on his extended hand, be-
low sometimes a swan . At Drachm.
A P Archaic Athena wielding spear and
armed with shield JR Trihemiobol.
TTT Sacred key of the temple of Hera
JR Tritetartemorion.
Concerning the beautiful head of Hera on these coins, see the remarks
of Professor Gardner {Types of Greek Coins, p. 138). The statue of the
Argive Hera by Polycleitus wore a stephanos adorned with figures of
the Horae and Charites (Paus., ii. 17, 4). As such complicated ornaments
could not well be reproduced on a small scale, a coin engraver might
naturally substitute a more simple form of decoration. As the Argive
hero Diomedes was believed to have brought to Argos the Palladium
which he carried off from Troy, the exploit is appropriately represented
on Argive coins. The swan seems to indicate that the hero was assisted
by Apollo, whose symbol it is. The dolphins are also Apolline symbols.
With regard to the Temple-key, see Zeitschrift fur Numismatik (iii. 113-
122).
Giro. b.c. 322-229.
During the century which followed the Lamian war it is probable that
if large coins were struck at Argos they were tetradrachms of the
Alexandrine types, resembling those of Sicyon of the same time. The
367
of Argos, where such an interpretation is highly improbable (see Imhoof-
Blurner, Num. Zeit., 1877)- If is perhaps a Temple-key.
Give. b.c. 400-322.
The coins of Argos in this period are among the most beautiful in
Greece, as might be expected from the high standing of Argos as a school
of art.
Head of Hera wearing stephanos on
which floral ornament (Fig. 241).
Id. (Gardner, Types, Pl. VIII., 35, 40).
Id.
Id.
ARAEION, ARTEIDN andAPTEIHN
Two dolphins in opposite directions ;
between them wolf, helmet, grapes,
ivy-branch, crab, quiver, tripod, bu-
cranium, swan, human head, lyre, or
pomegranate, etc.... At Stater.
APTEIflN Diomedes, naked but for
chlamys, grasping sword, stepping
stealthily along and carrying the
palladium on his extended hand, be-
low sometimes a swan . At Drachm.
A P Archaic Athena wielding spear and
armed with shield JR Trihemiobol.
TTT Sacred key of the temple of Hera
JR Tritetartemorion.
Concerning the beautiful head of Hera on these coins, see the remarks
of Professor Gardner {Types of Greek Coins, p. 138). The statue of the
Argive Hera by Polycleitus wore a stephanos adorned with figures of
the Horae and Charites (Paus., ii. 17, 4). As such complicated ornaments
could not well be reproduced on a small scale, a coin engraver might
naturally substitute a more simple form of decoration. As the Argive
hero Diomedes was believed to have brought to Argos the Palladium
which he carried off from Troy, the exploit is appropriately represented
on Argive coins. The swan seems to indicate that the hero was assisted
by Apollo, whose symbol it is. The dolphins are also Apolline symbols.
With regard to the Temple-key, see Zeitschrift fur Numismatik (iii. 113-
122).
Giro. b.c. 322-229.
During the century which followed the Lamian war it is probable that
if large coins were struck at Argos they were tetradrachms of the
Alexandrine types, resembling those of Sicyon of the same time. The