[691] Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins, Mysia, p. 18 ff. Nos. 1 ff. pl. 3, 8 ff.
[692] Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins, Mysia, p. 18, No. 1, pl. 30.
[693] A. Heiss, op. cit., pl. 45, 9.
[694] See Cohen, Monnaies Domitian, Nos. 227, 229, 236, and Pitra, op. cit., pp. 508-512. Although writing some sixty years ago he enumerates no less than 156 illustrations from coins and representations of fish association.
[695] For the fish-symbol in Judaism there is a good collection of facts in I. Scheftelowitz, “Das Fisch-Symbol in Judentum und Christentum,” in the Archiv. für Religionswissenschaft (1911), XIV. 1-53, 321-392.
[696] Pitra, op. cit., has several plates bearing on this. Of the coloured, pl. 1 shows an eucharistic table with a fish and bread upon it, and at each side seven baskets full of the latter, while in pl. 3 a fish swims bearing on his head a basket with sacred loaves, both illustrative of the miracle. See also pp. 565-6.
[697] Keller, op. cit., p. 352. The latest and best monograph on the fish-symbol in Christianity is that of F. J. Dölger, Das Fisch-symbol in frühchristlicher Zeit (Freiburg, 1910), whose conclusions are summarised in the Archiv für Religionswissenschaft (1912), XV. 297 f.
[698] Cf. the many fascinating works of Dr. J. Rendel Harris, e.g. The Cult of the Heavenly Twins and Boanerges. Also Lowrie, Art and Archæology; and Miss M. Hamilton, Greek Saints and their Festivals.
[699] See C. Cahier, Caractéristiques des Saints dans l’art populaire (Paris, 1867), Vol. II. 691 ff., for illustrations of Saints accompanied by fishes.
[700] Op. cit., II. 340. “The gemini pisces, the two fishes joined in one, were sacred to her, and the joke of the poisson d’Avril ... is a jest of phallical origin, and has a scandalous significance.”