Zeus : a study in ancient religion . hdrpe of Perseus{ib. 58). The whole narrative is sufficiently amazing. But perhaps more amazingstill is the fact that much collateral evidence can be quoted in its coins of Abonou Teichos from the reigns of Antoninus Pius, LuciusVerus, Geta, Severus Alexander, Gordianus Pius, and Trebonianus Gallus repre-sent the new-fangled god as a snake with a more or less human face {Brit. Coins Pontus, etc. p. 83 pi. 19, i=my fig. 928, Waddington—Babelon —Reinach Motm. gr. dAs. Min. i. 129 ff. pi. 17, 12, 13, 16 ( = my fig. 929), 19with legend f
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . hdrpe of Perseus{ib. 58). The whole narrative is sufficiently amazing. But perhaps more amazingstill is the fact that much collateral evidence can be quoted in its coins of Abonou Teichos from the reigns of Antoninus Pius, LuciusVerus, Geta, Severus Alexander, Gordianus Pius, and Trebonianus Gallus repre-sent the new-fangled god as a snake with a more or less human face {Brit. Coins Pontus, etc. p. 83 pi. 19, i=my fig. 928, Waddington—Babelon —Reinach Motm. gr. dAs. Min. i. 129 ff. pi. 17, 12, 13, 16 ( = my fig. 929), 19with legend fAYKHN, cp. pi. 17, 20, 21, 22, Head Hist, num.^ p. 505).Coppers of Nikomedeia in Bithynia struck by Caracalla and Maximus givethe snake a definitely human head (M. Dumersan Description des mddaillesantiques du cabi7iet de feu M. Allier de Hauteroche Paris 1829 p. 70 pi. 11, 10,Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Pontus, etc. p. 187 no. 48, Waddington—Babelon—Reinach Monn. gr. d^As. Min. \. 513, 545 pi. 94, I2 = my fig. 930, pi. 94, 13 f.,. Fig. 928.
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