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Apollon and Artemis 491
are an amphora, a palm, and five apples, p. j66 no. 38 similar, p. 166 no. 39 olw. Similar
inscription and bust; rev. KOINON OPA AAEZAN EN*I Al'nnOn OAI
Similar type : but the urn on the table contains five apples, and beneath the table
are a palm and an amphora. B. V. Head describes the apples as ' balls or discs.'
G. Macdonakl in the Hunter Cat. Coins i. 444 no. 10 Caracalla, 445 no. 13 Elagabalos
calls them 'balls'), of Ankyra in Galatia (Brit. A/its. Cat. Cc/z/j- Galatia, etc. p. 13 pi- 3,
I ( = my fig. 375) oliv. AN AVrOVCTOC Bust of Caracalla to right, laureate;
rrc'. MHTPOTT [ANKIVPAQ ICOTTVOI A Agonistic table, on which is an urn,
containing a palm-branch, placed between two purses : beneath the table are five apples,
p. 13 pi. 3, 2 obv. ANTHNIN OCniOCAVr Similar bust; rev. IVHTPOnO
AEAfSKVPAC I IIOTTV0 lA Agonistic urn inscribed AmN, containing a palmbranch
: above the urn are five apples. W. Wroth describes the apples as 'balls,' as does
Anson Num. Gr. i. 60 no. 683 pi. 10, i. 66 no. 724 pi. n), and of Tralleis in Lydia
(Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 357 no. 181 obv. 4)P0V CABTP ANKVAAGINA
Bust of Tranquillina to right; rev. TPAAAI ANflN beneath an agonistic table, on
which are five apples between two prize-wreaths. In the field to left and right TTV0IA
andOAYMTTIA. Above, ETT^? In the exergue, 4>IAITTrrOV KGNTA). Thus all
the evidence lor this custom, whether literary or numismatic, belongs to the second and
third centuries of our era,— unless indeed Anth. Pal. 9. 357 can be attributed to Cicero's
client A. Licinius Archias, which is very doubtful (see R. Reitzenstein in Pauly—Wissowa
Real-Enc. ii. 463 f.).
(6) Coins of Eleuthernai in Crete, from c. 480 B.C. onwards, show Apollon holding a
spherical object (J. N. Svoronos Numisniatiqite de la Crile anciemie Macon 1890 i. 130 ff.
Fig- 376. Fig- 377-
pi. ir, 4—6, 8— ir, 14— (8, 22— 30, pi. 12, i— 5, 7, Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Crete etc.
p. 33 fif. pi. 8, 5—8, 10—13, Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 182 f. pi. 41, 15—17, Head Hist,
num.- p. 464 f.), which has been variously interpreted. It is described as malum or
pomum by the older numismatists (see also Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Apollon p. 307 n. >),
including Eckhel Doctr. ttiim. vetP' ii. 311 f. and Rasche Lex. Num. iii. 586, Suppl. ii.
748 ; and its resemblance to the apple held in the hand e.g. of Aphrodite or Venus on
other coins (Rasche op. cit. vi. 1702, x. 841, 847 IT., 855, 859, 870, 875 ff.) is evident.
Midler— Wieseler Denkm. d. alt. Kunst ii. 94 pi. 12, 135" regards the small round thing
held by the standing Apollon as an ' Apfel,' the relatively larger round thing held by the
seated Apollon as a ' Diskos ' or a ' Kugel '—the one reminiscent of Hyakinthos, the
other a cosmic or solar globe. B. Pick in \he/ahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1898 xiii.
173 n. 128 says: 'die Art, wie er den (}egenstand halt, ist sehr verschieden, zuweilen
aber lasst sie die Deutung des Attributs als Salbgefass oder als Granatapfel ganz unmciglich
erscheinen.' J. N. Svoronos op. cit. i. 130 fif. calls it in succession ' peut-etre une pierre,'
'une pierre,' and ' un disque.' W. Wroth in the Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Crete etc.
pp. xxvi fif., II ff., G. Macdonald in the Hunter Cat. Coins loc. cit., and B. V. Head in his
Hist, numi^ loc. cit. all make it a ' stone,' presumably influenced by the stone-throwing
Talos on coins of Phaistos and the stone-throwing Minotaur on coins of Knossos (supra i.
720 f. figs. 534— 536). J. de Foville in the Rev. Num. iv Serie 1902 vi. ft', 454 fig.
( = my fig. 376) publishes a copper of Eleuthernai, on which Apollon's head is surrounded
by a radiate circle (cp. sup7-a i. 544 n. 9), and infers that the sphere held by him may
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