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Herakles and Iphikles
was disposed to think this queer customer spurious and Reinach
' accordingly labels him Suspect.' Without
careful examination of the original one
would not venture to decide. But it reminds
me of the copper coins struck under
Septimius Severus at Ba.ris (Isdarfa, Sparta)
on the Kestros in Pisidia, which portray
a double-headed deity, with two or four
arms', clad in a lion-skin and grasping
bow and club (figs. 354, 355)* or bow,
club, and sword (fig. 356)^ D. Sestini in
1828 mistook him for a group of Herakles
and Hephaistos'*. J. Friedlander in 1879
was the first to recognise in ' him einen
1 Cp. a bronze statuette from Teti in Sardinia (Perrot—Chipiez Hist, dc VArtw. 65 f.
fig. 5i=my fig. 353) representing a warrior with four arms, four eyes in his head, and
Fig. 353-
apparently other eyes on his arms : he carries two swords and two round shields. Height
o-i9'».
^ A. Lobbecke in the Zeitschr. f. Nwn. 1890 xvii. 13 pi. 2, 3 ( = my fig, 354) : obv.
AY- K- A-Cen -CeYhPOC-TTeP- bust of Septimius Severus; rev. BAPHNHN
double-headed male figure advancing to right, with club in right hand and bow in left,
on which a bird seems to be perched. Round his shoulders is flung a lion-skin. ' Lowenhaut
und Keulc.deuten auf Herakles.'
^ Brit. Mits. Cat. Coins Lycia, etc. pp. ex, 207 pi. 34, 2 (my fig. 356 was drawn
from a cast of the coin, kindly sent to me by Mr G. F. Hill): obv. AVTKAIACeiT-
CeOVHPOCrreP. .
bust of Septlmius Severus,- rev. BAPH NHN double-headed,
four-armed male figure advancing to right, with heads looking different ways, bow and
club held to right, sword to left, and lion-skin slung behind.
* D. Sestini Descrizione delle medaglie antiche greche del museo Hedervariano Firenze
1828 ii. 268 pi. 22, 5 ( = my fig. 355): ' Hercules et Vulcanus in unum corpus colligati...