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ENGRAVERS OF TERINA AND SIGNATURE OF EVAENETOS. 39and, though, as will be seen below, his practice varies,the signature is often extremely inconspicuous. On thereverse types, where it is found more often than in thecase of , it is placed not only in the field, but onthe cippus upon which the Nymph is seated, and in onecase, very minutely, on the rock upon which she rests herfoot [PI.III. II].36example of a signature en artiste.It would be impossible to cite a clearerIt is evident that some of the heads in P's " latermanner " are not upto the artistic level of those on hisearlier dies, which very closely reflect the style of hisassociate and probable master, . It is quite possiblethat in this and in other cases where we have to dealwith signatures on coins, the initial of a more well-knownand artistic engraver may, under certain circumstances,have been attached to the work of subordinate die-sinkersin the same atelier, perhaps as a kind of official passport.The tendency to adopt such a procedure would begreatest in the later years of an engraver.But where the signature was of this official class, itmay very well have covered the actual handiwork of asubordinate. 37 It is noteworthy, moreover, in this connexion,that the obverse type of this series which presents56Regling, op. cit., No. 74 (\\-KKK). The example given in PI. III. 11is from the British Museum.37The above remarks answer the objections recently raised by Messrs.H. von Fritze and H. Gaebler (Nomisma, i. (1907), pp. 16 seqq.) regardingthe and P as artists' signatures. The criticisms put forwardin the above publication are in any case much exaggerated. There isno sufficient reason for supposing that P covers the work of " three oreven sjx different engravers," though it is clear that some of the laterobverse types with this signature show a falling ofi in style. The earlierwork with which it is connected was no doubt executed under the stronginfluence of (p, who appears to have been P's master, and this accountsfor the strong resemblance presented by certain dies.