Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 850. Fig. 851. Fig. 852. rev. TON KTICTH N W POYCAGIC (in exergue) the same figure holding his phidleabove an altar, garlanded and kindled, at the foot of which are seen the head and forelegsof the sacrificial bull (? boar ). Behind is a fruitful fig (?)-tree with an eagle in itsbranches; to the left, a round temple with an arched entry {ib. i. 591 pi. loi, 22 ( = myfig. 852)). These coins presumably represent the eponymous hero Prousias (cp. a coin ofCommodus ib. i. 582 pi. 100, 3 nPOYCAeiC TON KTICTHN nPOYCIANbeardless head of hero to right) wo
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 850. Fig. 851. Fig. 852. rev. TON KTICTH N W POYCAGIC (in exergue) the same figure holding his phidleabove an altar, garlanded and kindled, at the foot of which are seen the head and forelegsof the sacrificial bull (? boar ). Behind is a fruitful fig (?)-tree with an eagle in itsbranches; to the left, a round temple with an arched entry {ib. i. 591 pi. loi, 22 ( = myfig. 852)). These coins presumably represent the eponymous hero Prousias (cp. a coin ofCommodus ib. i. 582 pi. 100, 3 nPOYCAeiC TON KTICTHN nPOYCIANbeardless head of hero to right) worshipping Zeus. ^ Aizanoi {Tchavdir-Hissar) {Al^avis only Ptol. 5. 2. 17 ed. pr.), the chief town ofAizanitis in Phrygia Epiktetos (Strab. 576), is situated on a high plateau (1085^ above thesea) near the sources of the river Rhyndakos. Herodian. vepi KadoXiKrjs irpoa^dias i (i. 15,6 f. Lentz) (cp. vepi 6pdoypa<pias (ii. 468, 29 Lentz)) ap. Steph. Byz. ^avoi stated thatAizanoi received its name from Aizen son of Tantalos. Ot
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