Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 840. Fig. 841. (=my figs. 839,841, 838), Babelon rom. ii. 3. 987 fl. pi. 256,1—3, Overbeck Zeus p. 197 Miinztaf. 3, 3, P. Gardner Types of Gk. Coins p. 165 f. pi. 9, 17,Class. Rev. 1903 xvii. 412 f. fig. 8. My fig. 840 is from a specimen in the McClean collec-tion). Since the tree on these coins of Phaistos is clearly copied from the tree on theEurope-coins of Gortyna [supra i. 527 ff. fig. 391 ff-) J- N. Svoronos in the Rev. Beigede Num. 1894 pp. 127, 137 infers that it is an oak; but I adhere to my contention {suprai. 527 n. i
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 840. Fig. 841. (=my figs. 839,841, 838), Babelon rom. ii. 3. 987 fl. pi. 256,1—3, Overbeck Zeus p. 197 Miinztaf. 3, 3, P. Gardner Types of Gk. Coins p. 165 f. pi. 9, 17,Class. Rev. 1903 xvii. 412 f. fig. 8. My fig. 840 is from a specimen in the McClean collec-tion). Since the tree on these coins of Phaistos is clearly copied from the tree on theEurope-coins of Gortyna [supra i. 527 ff. fig. 391 ff-) J- N. Svoronos in the Rev. Beigede Num. 1894 pp. 127, 137 infers that it is an oak; but I adhere to my contention {suprai. 527 n. i) that it is the crown of a pollard willow. Comparison with other Phaestiancoins ( Svoronos Numismatique de la Crete ancienne i. 260 f. pi. 24, i f., 6 f., Babelon The Mountain-cults of Zeus 947 Monn, gr. rom. ii. 3. 989 ff. pi. 256, 4—8) makes it fairly certain that beneath the god isspread a lion (?)-skin, the head of which is touched by his left hand. That we have hereto do with a youthful Zeus appears from Hesych. F
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