PLATE H. 



Coins and Gems containing Figures of Cicada. 

 (Pages 197 to 201.) 



See also Vol. I. p. xix, and PLATE I, 



Fig. 1.— A hare, springing to the right. Underneath 

 a Cicada. Messanion. Eeverse : Miile-drawn cliariot 

 in motion. In the division, a laurel-leaf witli berries. 

 Tetradrachm of MESSANION. Imhoof Museum. 



Fig. 2. — Gem. Grotesque. A grasshopper driving 

 a plough, drawn by Cicadte. 



Fig. 3. — Gem. Sard-scarabaeus. A lioness, with a 

 Cicada on the left. 



Fig. 4. — Singing Cicada lying on its back. Very 

 good. Carnelian from the Stockholm Museum. 



Fig. 5. — A horse licking its right fore-leg. "Above, 

 a Cicada." {Scorpion?) Eeverse: LAEISAEON, and a 

 sandal in a deep square. Drachm of Larisa of Thessaly. 

 Brit. Museum. 



Fig. 5. — Naked male figure, holding a laurel-twig in 

 his right hand : before, a buck ; behind, a Cicada. 

 Eeverse: KAULONIATAN. A buck facing to the 

 right. Nomos of Caulonia. Arolsen Museum. 



Fig. 7. — Naked male figure, in a position similar to 

 the last described. A running figure on the left arm. 

 A buck below, facing to the right : KALOI. Nomos 

 of Kaulonia. 



Figs. 8, 9, 10. — Cicada cut in onyx, and drawn in 

 different positions. Fig. 10 shows how a silk cord 

 might have threaded this ornament for suspension 

 round the neck. 



With the exception of figs. 8, 9, and 10, all my 

 figures are either from King and Munro's ' Horace,' 

 or from Percy Gardner's ' Types,' or from Blumer 

 and Keller's ' Munzen und Gemmen Klassischen von 

 Imhoof.' 



