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12 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.Rev. TJA Temple 1., seen from front and side ;on I.,FAIWN palm-tree; on r., olive-tree, on whichowl is perched.Size -95.[PL II. 3 rw.](Purchased, Sale at Sotheby's, 13 March, 1899, lot 125.)The trees beside the temple may represent a grovebe sacred treeswithin which the building stood, or maylike the palm of Delos and the platanus of Gortyna.Theowl (perched on the olive-tree as on the Imperial coinsof Athens n would rather seem to indicate that the)temple is of Athena. But, on the other hand, the goddessis not otherwise known to have been connected withPagae, the divinities of which, were I sis, Cybele, Dionysos,Herakles, and Artemis Soteira. 18 Probably the templeis of this Artemis, who appears to have been an importantgoddess at Pagae from the time of the Persian Warsonwards. At Pagae there was a statue of Artemis Soteira,modelled, apparently, upon the statue made by the sculptorStrongylion for the neighbouring Megara. This statueappears upon the coins, and in one case 19 the goddessisrepresented in a temple, on each side of which (it is importantto notice) is a tree, seemingly an olive-tree.AEGIUM (ACHAIA).14. Olv. AVKMAVPAN TUJNINOC[C] Bustof M. Aurelius r., laur., wearing cuirass.lien. AIFIGUJN Asklepios, wearing himation overshoulder and lower limbs, seated r. on throne ;71119Imhoof-Blumer and Gardner, Num. Comm. on Pans, PI. Z.Imhoof-Blumer and Gardner, op. cit., p. 8 f. ; p. 154.Inihoof-Blumer and Gardner, op. cit., PI. A. II.