Note 1083 — Chapter V · THE MAGICAL CONTROL OF THE WEATHER (continued 2)

Antigonus, Histor. mirab. 15 (Scriptores rerum mirabilium Graeci, ed. A. Westermann, pp. 64 sq.). Antigonus mentions that the badge of the city was a representation of the chariot with a couple of ravens perched on it. This badge appears on existing coins of Crannon, with the addition of a pitcher resting on the chariot (B. V. Head, Historia Numorum, p. 249). Hence A. Furtwängler conjectured, with great probability, that a pitcher full of water was placed on the real chariot when rain was wanted, and that the spilling of the water, as the chariot shook, was intended to imitate a shower of rain. See A. Furtwängler, Meisterwerke der griechischen Plastik, pp. 257–263.