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infant with both hands ; while on the left a mountain-god (Kadmos V)
looks on from a height down from which flows a stream, and on the
right a woman (Adrasteia 1) runs towards the kneeling woman. On
the other coin the Korybantes dance round Adrasteia, who runs, with
the infant Zeus in her arms, between two river-gods (Lykos and
Kapros, probably). The first of these coins seems to represent Bheia
in dread of the fate that awaits her child, and Adrasteia coming to
save it; while the second shows Zeus brought up in secret by
Adrasteia. See PI. I 3, 4.

These Apamean types are all scenes from Apamean legend. It is
therefore probable that they were taken from a set of pictures on the
walls of some public building in Apameia; and, if so, the long series
suits a Stoa best. This supposed building was erected earlier than
the reign of Commodus, under whom examples of these coins
appear.

This hypothesis, suggested by the facts as stated, is confirmed by
evidence showing that such painted Stoas were common, not merely
in the Hellenic period, but also in the Roman period (to which the
Apamean Stoa would have to be assigned). In Dacia at Colonia
Ulpia Sarmizegetusa we find in the second century the record of the
painting of a portico 1. At Thyatira we hear of a Hekatontastyle,
obviously a long Stoa with 100 columns, in which there were 25
Erotes: these were probably a series of winged figures painted at
regular intervals on the wall2. Further, the influence of statues on
coin-types in the Phrygian cities • is often seen (see Ch. XIV § %,
XVI § 6).

When pictures in the cities were models for coin-engravers, it is
easy to see why picturesque types with very slight variations occur on
the coins of cities which are not likely to have been in close relations
with one another. For example, the battle of Zeus and the serpent-
legged giants occurs at Brouzos and Akmonia, which were not in
easy communication3. There was evidently a school of painting

the originals to have been wall-paint- AEMitih. 1877 p. 122, CIL III 7960.

ings in the temple of Zeus, which were 2 25 statues of Erotes can hardly be

either painted or restored in the time of thought of: cpyfTturrarjjs ip&rav rav iv

Caracalla, on whose coins only they are t<3 eKarovTaariXa «' BCH 1887 p. 100

copied. Many examples might be given: (probably second century).

I prefer to take a recognized instance, 3 See Ch.XVI § 4: this subject seems

to show that I am not pressing the to have been treated at Akmonia in

evidence in favour of my theory. a picturesque relief, a part of which

1 Tib. CI. Ianuarius Aug. Col., Patr. was seen by Hamilton and is reproduced

dec. I (i. e. decuriae I collegii fabrum), below on p. 626.
picturam portions et accubitwn (fecit):

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