First, Cilician iconic
types are not quite like most Greek iconic
types, and though the
polos is not elusive (like
kouros it is an ancient word that is used as a technical term, and I have repeatedly posted the wooden statuette of
Hera from Samos to illustrate it), this headdress differs from what is called a
polos, in any useful usage, being rather
conical, not cylindrical. Since we do not know what they called their goddess, we can only say that of the two on this coin she seems to be the elder, more matronly, goddess of the two, the other the 'corn maiden' (U.S. grain girl), so that as a pair they either are, or are like, Demeter and
Persephone, both deities with identities much wider (and you might say deeper) than the Eleusinian narrative. Or else, they are a Demeter look-alike and an
Artemis that herself looks like a Demeter. And it is not only in
Cilicia where there are forms of
Artemis that look rather like Demeter. I think that to ask which name and epithet is 'right' and which 'wrong' is not an appropriate approach to this question. Rather, keep searching (there may be no real answer, however, since any religious texts that the Cilician cities
had were not copied in monasteries that survived all the historical cleansings, if indeed there were anything like an Homeric Hymn in
Cilicia. I hate recommending something that demands so much scholarly control and updating on our
part, but I'd look in the indexes of all seven volumes of A. B. Cook's "
Zeus", if I were you, just to see if there's anything there. Don't be misled by the title; precious little of that
work is specifically about
Zeus. Even if there is a whole paragraph in the Kleine
Pauly, it may only define the School of research that its author adheres to so would be only the beginning for research.
Pat L.
On the Greek peninsula,
Persephone, as a girl, is usually unveiled, but at Locri (e.g.) as consort of Hades she is veiled...