Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 996. Fig. 997. Nikatcr in his first reign (146—)-^ and Antiochos viii Grypos (121—96 ).Passing from the regal to the autonomous coinage of the town, we have coinsstruck for the tetrdpolis^ of Antiocheia by Daphne, Seleukeia in Pieria,Apameia, and Laodikeia (149—147 ) with a head of Zeus as obverseand a thunderbolt as reverse type^, or with two Zeus-like heads—probablymeant for the Demoi of Antiocheia and Seleukeia—as obverse and Zeus en-throned, Nike in one hand, a sceptre in the other, as reverse type (fig. 997)^.The autonomous issues o

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Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 996. Fig. 997. Nikatcr in his first reign (146—)-^ and Antiochos viii Grypos (121—96 ).Passing from the regal to the autonomous coinage of the town, we have coinsstruck for the tetrdpolis^ of Antiocheia by Daphne, Seleukeia in Pieria,Apameia, and Laodikeia (149—147 ) with a head of Zeus as obverseand a thunderbolt as reverse type^, or with two Zeus-like heads—probablymeant for the Demoi of Antiocheia and Seleukeia—as obverse and Zeus en-throned, Nike in one hand, a sceptre in the other, as reverse type (fig. 997)^.The autonomous issues of the metropolis of the Antiochenes {s. i ) showthe head of Zeus wearing bays and Zeus enthroned as before but enclosed in a ^ Supra p. 981 n. i. ^ Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Seleucid Kings of Syria p. 40 pi. 13, 1, Hunter Cat. Coinsiii. 50 f. pi. d^, 20, E. Babelon Les rois de Syrie Paris 1890 p. 79 pi. I4, 6 ( = my fig. 996),Head Hist. nu77i? p. 763. 3 Supra p. iiSSff. * Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Seleucid Kings of Syria p. 56

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