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casual passenger. It was a representation of 
the Gorgonian head, as it is seen upon the 
most antient terra-cottas, gems, and coins of 
Greece : generally with the features frightfully 
distorted, and always with the tongue pro- 
truded^; derived perhaps, originally, from the 
appearance presented by the shadows seen 
upon the Moons dish ; for when that planet is 
at the full, a rude resemblance of the human 
countenance is similarly displayed : and the 
superstitions respecting the To^yziTj <cs(pcx,X^ 
being also those of the Diva triformis, consti- 
tuted a part of that worship which was paid to 
the Moon"^. The present example, as to the form 
of the stone, exhibits a perfect circle : and when 
this image appears upon antient coins, however 
irregular the form of the medal may be, an evi- 
dent design to circumscribe the whole symbol, 
including the snakes of the hair, &c. by a circu- 
lar line, may be observed. This is particularly 
apparent upon certain medals of Parium^ and 
Ahydos*; in many o^ the pateras of Grecian terra- 
cotta, were this figure may be noticed as having 
(1) See No. 1. of the Vignette to this Chapter. 
(2) Vide Eurqud. in Phoen. 465. Homer. Odyss. \. 632, &c. 
(3) See Tab. xli. No. 16. of Combe's Descript. of the Hunterian Col- 
lection. Land. 1782. 
(4) Ibid. Tab. i. No. 11. 
