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PRIMITIAE IIERACLIENSES. 179identified with the Philistion of Velian coins datedc. 325 B.C. This is almost impossible, but owing to thenew dating of Tarentum Period 4 the point need notbe pressed ;at the same time, the work of Philistion atVelia may have been dated somewhat too Welate.must, however, notice that l occurs on coins of Veliaand Metapontum which bear the triquetra symbol.They have therefore been brought into relation withAgathocles and dated to c. 300 B.C. (C. T. Seltman,Num. Chron., 1912, p. 7).Mr. Seltman does not noticethat the substantial correctness of hie date -for thesecoins isproved by the occurrence of the Velian coinin mint condition in the Beneventan find dated bySir A. Evans on other grounds to c. 310 B.C. (Horsemenof Tarentum, p. 93). It is clear that this I can havenothing to do with the Tarentine coins.Moreover, since I is found in conjunction with theabbreviations KAA, API, AAI, and ZIM at Tarentum,and since these abbreviations occur at Heraclea, Metapontum,and Thurium, Evans (op. ciL, p. 110) hassuggested that the collaboration of l AO or 4>l Aft, an abbreviation whichdoes not seem to occur at Tarentum. In any case,the fact emerges that, so far as style was concerned,Sir Arthur Evans found no difficulty in grouping asroughly contemporary the 4> I coins of Tarentum withthe 4>l and IAO coins of Heraclea. 77 It should be mentioned that when the greater part of thispaper was read at a meeting of the Society in November, 1917,Sir Arthur Evans explained that he had always regarded the I AOgroup as later. I leave the passage as I had written it becausemy point is that with one exception there are no Heracleandidrachms with | earlier than c. 800 B.C.