[292] The description in _Anth. Pal._, X. 10, “Me, Pan, the fishermen have placed on this holy cliff, the watcher here over the fair anchorage of the harbour; and I take care now of the baskets and again of the trawlers off this shore,” and in Archias (_Anth. Pal._, X. 7, and 8) of the fishermen making an image of Priapus to be set up, just where the sea leaves the shore, are only three of very many similar passages. Among the Eleans Apollo was honoured as a God under the title of _The Fish-eater_ (Athen., VIII. 36). In addition to Gods we read of Tritons who were half-men, half-fish, and of a still more wonderful being, an Ichthyocentaurus, whose upper body was of human form, and lower that of a fish, while in place of the hands were horses’ hooves! [293] The Phigaleans (in Arkadia) worshipped an old wooden image, called Eurynome, which represented a woman to the hips, a fish below. This curious effigy was kept bound in golden chains and was regarded by the inhabitants as a form of Artemis: see Paus., 8. 41, 4-6. A large Bœotian vase at Athens shows Artemis with a great fish painted on the front of her dress, a clear indication that she was held locally to be a goddess of fishing (M. Collignon and L. Couve, _Catalogue des Vases Peints du Musée National d’Athènes_ (Paris, 1902), p. 108 f., No. 462; cp. _Ib._, No. 463). [294] It is probably the wisest course to admit that the unity of an ancient god or goddess was a matter of _name_, rather than of _nature_. [295] _De Dea Syr._, ii. c. 14. The authorship is a matter of doubt. The author adds, “but the image in the holy city is all woman.” [296] Diod. Sic., II. 1. [297] On Greek and Italian vases, etc., women with fish bodies are occasionally represented. Cf. Keller, _op. cit._, ii. 349. [298] See _Brit. Mus. Cat. of Coins_, Galatia, pl. 18, 14, or B. V. Head, _Historia Numorum^2_ (Oxford, 1911), p. 777. [299] For Derketo, standing on a Triton, on coins of Ascalon, see G. F. Hill, _Catalogue of The Greek Coins of Palestine_ (London, 1914), pp. lviii. f., 130 f., Pl. XIII. 21. The dove in the right hand of the goddess is her very usual attribute. The Triton on which she stands expresses her marine nature. Ovid, _Met._ IV. 44: “De te, Babylonia, narret, Derceti, quam versa squamis velantibus artus Stagna Palæstini credunt celebrasse figura.” Although Roscher’s _Dict. of Myth._ does not in the long article devoted to Isis specify her as fish-tailed, Isis is distinctly identified with Atargatis of Bambyke in _Papyrus Oxyr._, 1380, line 100 f., ἐν βανβύκη Ἀταργάτει. Cf. also Pliny, V. 19: Ibi (Syria) prodigiosa Atargatis, Græcis autem Derceto dicta, colitur. [300] _De Superstitione_, Bk. IV., quoted by Athen., VIII. 37. [301] _History of Asia_, Bk. I., quoted _ibid._ VIII. 37.