Zeus : a study in ancient religion . ns here advanced is furnished, not indeed by thepainted tablet from Tarragona (on which see Addenda to ii. 2 n. 4), but by theoccasional numismatic representation of Desire or Love as a winged mannikinproceeding out of the mouth. At Emporion {Ampurias) in Hispania Tarra- 1040 Appendix G conensis the earliest coins {s. iii ), copying the Siculo-Punic drachmai^ showa head of Persephone on the obverse and a standing horse crowned by a flyingNike on the reverse side (fig. 887, a = K. Heiss Description ghierale des mon-naies a7itiques de VEspagne Paris 1870

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Zeus : a study in ancient religion . ns here advanced is furnished, not indeed by thepainted tablet from Tarragona (on which see Addenda to ii. 2 n. 4), but by theoccasional numismatic representation of Desire or Love as a winged mannikinproceeding out of the mouth. At Emporion {Ampurias) in Hispania Tarra- 1040 Appendix G conensis the earliest coins {s. iii ), copying the Siculo-Punic drachmai^ showa head of Persephone on the obverse and a standing horse crowned by a flyingNike on the reverse side (fig. 887, a = K. Heiss Description ghierale des mon-naies a7itiques de VEspagne Paris 1870 pp. 86, 90 pi. i Emporiae i, Head p. 2). Later silver and copper coins of the same town exhibit a mostremarkable modification of this originally Carthaginian horse. First, he is trans-formed into a winged and prancing Pegasos (fig. 887, (^ = Heiss op. cit. p. 87 pi. iEmporiae 2). Then there emerges from his head a small human head wearinga petasos (Heiss op. cit. p. 87 pi. i Emporiae 3, cp. 4f. = fig. 887, ^, d). Finally,.

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