94 T. L. Donaldson, _Architectura Numismatica_ (London, 1859), pp. 107-109, with fig. 31; _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, ix. (1888) pp. 210-213; G. F. Hill, _Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Cyprus_ (London, 1904), pp. cxxvii-cxxxiv, with plates xiv. 2, 3, 6-8, xv. 1-4, 7, xvi. 2, 4, 6-9, xvii. 4-6, 8, 9, xxvi. 3, 6-16; George Macdonald, _Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunterian Collection_ (Glasgow, 1899-1905), ii. 566, with pl. lxi. 19. As to the existing remains of the temple, which were excavated by an English expedition in 1887-1888, see “Excavations in Cyprus, 1887-1888,” _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, ix. (1888) pp. 193 _sqq._ Previous accounts of the temple are inaccurate and untrustworthy. 95 C. Schuchhardt, _Schliemann’s Ausgrabungen_2 (Leipsic, 1891), pp. 231-233; G. Perrot et Ch. Chipiez, _Histoire de l’Art dans l’Antiquité_, vi. (Paris, 1894) pp. 336 _sq._, 652-654; _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, ix. (1888) pp. 213 _sq._; P. Gardner, _New Chapters in Greek History_, p. 181. 96 J. Selden, _De dis Syris_ (Leipsic, 1668), pp. 274 _sqq._; S. Bochart, _Hierozoicon_, Editio Tertia (Leyden, 1692), ii. 4 _sqq._ Compare the statue of a priest with a dove in his hand, which was found in Cyprus (Perrot et Chipiez, _Histoire de l’Art dans l’Antiquité_, iii. Paris, 1885, p. 510), with fig. 349. 97 A. J. Evans, “Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult,” _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, xxi. (1901) pp. 99 _sqq._ M24 The Aphrodite of Paphos a Phoenician or aboriginal deity. Her conical image. 98 Tacitus, _Annals_, iii. 62. 99 Herodotus, i. 105; compare Pausanias, i. 14. 7. Herodotus only speaks of the sanctuary of Aphrodite in Cyprus, but he must refer to the great one at Paphos. At Ascalon a goddess was worshipped in mermaid-shape under the name of Derceto, and fish and doves were sacred to her (Diodorus Siculus, ii. 4; compare Lucian, _De dea Syria_, 14). The name Derceto, like the much more correct Atargatis, is a Greek corruption of _’Attâr_, the Aramaic form of _Astarte_, but the two goddesses Atargatis and Astarte, in spite of the affinity of their names, appear to have been historically distinct. See Ed. Meyer, _Geschichte des Altertums_,2 i. 2 (Stuttgart and Berlin, 1909), pp. 605, 650 _sq._; F. Baethgen, _Beiträge zur Semitischen Religionsgeschichte_ (Berlin, 1888), pp. 68 _sqq._; F. Cumont, _s.vv._ “Atargatis” and “Dea Syria,” in Pauly-Wissowa’s _Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft_; René Dussaud, _Notes de Mythologie Syrienne_ (Paris, 1903), pp. 82 _sqq._; R. A. Stewart Macalister, _The Philistines, their History and Civilization_ (London, 1913), pp. 94 _sqq._