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186 S. W. GROSE.name is possible,offered.but not credible on the evidenceFor example, Warren Cat., No. 62 (1 a), withthe rich treatment of Athena's hair and the lionjumping upon Herakles's left thigh, must surely beThe reverse islater than the APIZTOEENOZ coin.quite unusual. Would APIZTOHENOX signon hisin fullearlier work and be content with A on a laterand more original design? Moreover, in the succeedingperiod at Heraclea, when the standing type of'Heraklesis adopted, we get a number of coins reading APIZ.Are they the advanced work of Aristoxenos, or dothey belong to a later artist of this name ? If A andAPI are artists' signatures, surely APIZ on thesesomewhat later coins must fall into the same category.And if APIZ is another form of this artist's signature,why did he always sign API at Tarentum, a formpossibly never occurring at Heraclea? 13 Or whyshould they not stand, one and all, for the Heracleanname APIZTHN (Jameson Cat., No. 234), or eventhe later Aristodamos or Aristoge . . . ? MAs for KAA, evidence of his collaboration withAristoxenos is found in the Tarentine coins signedK-A and the somewhat later ones with KAA-API(Evans, op. cit., p. 55). The idea is elaborated onpp. 67-74. On p. 67 the K on the famous gold staterof Poseidon and Taras isexpanded to K[AA], and ina later note (Num. Chron., 1912, p. 51) a suggestionthat E on the obverse of this coin represents thesignature of Euainetos is approved by Sir A. Evans.Apparently the floruit of KAA dates from c. 380 B.C.On pp. 72-3 of the Horsemen of Tarentum the close1314Authority for API seems to rest on Mionnet. See 5 (n).Who, as Sir A. Evans is forced to conclude, were magistrates.