172 IVORY AND THE ELEPHANT 



was for many years professor of Greek and Latin at Deven- 

 ter, and after his death a eulogy on him was deUvered by 

 M. Boze at a meeting of the Academy of Inscriptions, which 

 is pubhshed in the third volume of its Memoires. 



Elephant with Mahout on triumphal arch of Arcadius in Constantinople, after the 

 " Antiquitates Constantinopolitanes " of Bandurius. 



— From Kuypert's "De elephantis in nummis obviis," Hagse Comitum, 1719. 



Of the second period of Greek coinage, 550 to 480 B.C., 

 there is a silver coin of the island of Aegina (Fig. 1), the 

 characteristic tortoise emblem having an elephant's head 

 stamped upon the back, this being possibly a later addition. 

 Some of the finest representations of the elephant may be 



