156 ISLAND OF SYROS. 
CHAP, with wings inflected towards the head, in the 
in. 
most antient style of the art ; a boar was also 
introduced, with the singular representation as 
as of a battering ram projecting from its breast. 
Among the medals there were two of silver, in 
good preservation. The first was of Chios : it ex- 
hibited, in front, a7vinged sphinx; and for reverse, 
the diota, with this legend, APfEIOZ-XIOZ. 
The other was very small, but of extraordinary 
beauty ; probably it was of Clazomence in Ionia, 
and possibly of Citium in Cyprus '. The head of 
a youthful Deity appeared in front, in very high 
relief; and the reverse, equally prominent, 
exhibited the image of a ram couched. Among 
all the subjects represented upon Grecian 
medals, nothing is more rare than the figure of 
this very common quadruped. Almost every 
other sacred animal may be observed : but the 
sheep, so often the object of sacrifice, not only 
seldom occurs, but when it has been found 
upon an antient medal, it is always upon one of 
the highest antiquity, destitute of any legend, 
and which generally classes, in numismatic col- 
lections, among coins of uncertain or of un- 
known origin. The cause of this has not been 
explained. 
(l ) See the Vignette to Chap. II. Vol, IV. 6f the 8vo. edition of these 
Travels. 
