Zeus : a study in ancient religion . t. Even so we have hardly exhausted the significance of the coin-types. One of them(fig. 867) apparently attaches a goats head to the outline of the mountain, low down on itsleft hand side,—a detail which recalls the goats head on the gem in the British Museum[supra], but is not easy to explain. And what are we to make of the star-like flower orrosette that is found so frequently in the centre of the design ? Is this only a stylisedrendering of rocks or bushes? Or dare we surmise that popular belief connected themountain with some magical or mythical flower
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . t. Even so we have hardly exhausted the significance of the coin-types. One of them(fig. 867) apparently attaches a goats head to the outline of the mountain, low down on itsleft hand side,—a detail which recalls the goats head on the gem in the British Museum[supra], but is not easy to explain. And what are we to make of the star-like flower orrosette that is found so frequently in the centre of the design ? Is this only a stylisedrendering of rocks or bushes? Or dare we surmise that popular belief connected themountain with some magical or mythical flower such as that mentioned by W. J. Hamiltonin the tale already told ? ^ Zeus OXij^pLos or 0\6^pLs (supra i. 597 n. 4). ^ Supra i. 100 n. 12. ^ 6e6s TxpLO-Tos {supra p. 879 n. o no. (15)). ^ Supra i. 100 n. 14. ^ Zagreus {supra i. 651), whose art-type was borrowed by the Cretan Zeus ISatos{supra i. 644 ff. pi. xxxv). ^ Zeus ilpofxdadrjs {supra i. 741 ff.). A bronze coin of s. i , probably struck at Chalkis sub Libano (An/ar) near. The Mountain-cults of Zeus 981 Mount Kasion^.
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