558 B. V. Head, _Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Lydia_, pp. cxi-cxiii, with pl. xxvii. 12. On the coins the champion’s name appears as Masnes or Masanes, but the reading is doubtful. The name Masnes occurred in Xanthus’s history of Lydia (_Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum_, ed. C. Müller, iv. 629). It is probably the same with Manes, the name of a son of Zeus and Earth, who is said to have been the first king of Lydia (Dionysius Halicarnasensis, _Ant. Rom._ i. 27. 1). Manes was the father of King Atys (Herodotus, i. 94). Thus Tylon was connected with the royal family of Lydia through his champion as well as in the ways mentioned in the text. 559 Dionysius Halicarnasensis, _l.c._ 560 See above, p. 183. 561 B. V. Head, _Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Lydia_, p. cxiii. 562 B. V. Head, _Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Lydia_, pp. cx, cxiii. The festival seems to be mentioned only on coins. 563 See above, p. 154. 564 V. Hehn, _Kulturpflanzen und Haustiere_7 (Berlin, 1902), p. 261. He would derive the name from the Semitic, or at all events the Cilician language. The Hebrew word for saffron is _karkôm_. As to the spring flowers of North-Western Asia Minor, W. M. Leake remarks (April 1, 1800) that “primroses, violets, and crocuses, are the only flowers to be seen” (_Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor_, London, 1824, p. 143). Near Mylasa in Caria, Fellows saw (March 20, 1840) the broom covered with yellow blossoms and a great variety of anemones, like “a rich Turkey carpet, in which the green grass did not form a prominent colour amidst the crimson, lilac, blue, scarlet, white, and yellow flowers” (Ch. Fellows, _An Account of Discoveries in Lycia_, London, 1841, pp. 65, 66). In February the yellow stars of _Gagea arvensis_ cover the rocky and grassy grounds of Lycia, and the field-marigold often meets the eye. At the same season in Lycia the shrub _Colutea arborescens_ opens its yellow flowers. See T. A. B. Spratt and E. Forbes, _Travels in Lycia_ (London, 1847), ii. 133. I must leave it to others to identify the Golden Flower of Sardes. M140 The custom of burning a god may have been intended to recruit his divine energies. M141 The custom of burning a god may have stood in some relation to volcanic phenomena. M142 The great extinct volcano Mount Argaeus in Cappadocia.