ILLUSTRATIONS. 



FIG. i. AN ARCHAIC GEM, PROBABLY PARTHIAN (Paris Coll., 1264,2 ; 

 cf. Imhoof-Blumer und Keller, PI. xxi, 14). 



FIG. 2. TETRADRACHM OF ERETRIA (B. M. Cat., Central Or., 

 PI. xxiii, i). 



Both these subjects represent a bird on a bull's (or cow's) back, in my 

 opinion the pleiad in relation to the sign Taurus (vide infra, p. 31). In 

 Fig. 2 the bull is turning round, to symbolize the tropic ; in Fig. r it is in 

 the conventional kneeling attitude of the constellation Taurus, as Aratus 

 describes it (Ph. 517) 



Tavpov 5f ateeXfcov oaarj irepityaiveTai oK\a, 

 or in Cicero's translation 



' Atque genu flexo Taurus connititur ingens.' 



Compare also, among other kindred types, the coins of Paphos, showing 

 a bull with the winged solar disc on or over his back {Rev. Num., 1883, 

 p. 355; Head, H. Numorum, p. 624, &c.). 



FIGS. 3, 4. A COIN OF AGRIGENTUM, WITH EAGLE AND CRAB (Head, 

 H. Niimorum, p. 105). Aquila, which is closely associated with 

 Capricorn (cf. Manil. i. 624), sets as Cancer rises : it may figure, 

 therefore, as a solstitial sign. 



FIG. 5. COIN OF HlMERA, BEFORE B.C. 842, WITH THE COCK (Head, 



H. Numorum, p. 125 ; cf. infra, p. 26). 



FIG. 6. ATHENIAN TETRADRACHM, WITH OWL, OLIVE-TWIG, AND 

 CRESCENT MOON (Head, p. 312; cf. infra, p. 46). 



FIG. 7 (on title]. DECADRACHM OF AGRIGENTUM. Cf. Aesch. Agam. 

 1 10-120 (vide infra, p. 8). The reverse of the coin shows Cancer 

 associated with the solar Quadriga. 



