Foreign topography; or, an encyclopedick account, alphabetically arranged, of the ancient remains in Africa, Asia, and Europe; forming a sequel to the Encyclopedia of antiquities / By the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke.
- Thomas Dudley Fosbroke
- Date:
- 1828
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Foreign topography; or, an encyclopedick account, alphabetically arranged, of the ancient remains in Africa, Asia, and Europe; forming a sequel to the Encyclopedia of antiquities / By the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ALOPECONESUS, in the Chersonesus of Thrace; AAiinr.KON ; Pcllerin has published an autono- mous of n., upon which is a vase and fox. ALYSIA, ..icarnii?zia; AAI ; a flying pegasus. AMANl lA,///yria; AMANTIIN; a thunderbolt in a laurel crown. AMASTRIS, Paphlagonia; AMA2TPIAN«N A- AIAZTPEli and AMASTPISj sometimes the egis* AMBRACI.A, Epirus; AMBP; commonly a pegasus. AM PHI LOCH I.‘\, y/carzjoHia j a pegasus, AM4>I. AMPHIPOLIS, Macedon; usual symbol, a lighted torch, AM«I>IIIOAITiiN. Pcllerin thinks that the Greek coins commonly ascribed to the Syrian Am- phipolis belong to the Macedonian, ANACrORlUiVI, Acarnania-, ANAKTOPIflN j pe- gasus. ANCONA,/ta/y; APKON} a crooked arm. One coin was struck in honour of Trajan, who built there a port and trimphal arch, with a port on the reverse and POR. ADG. ANCHOR, symbol of Ancyra, PjEstum, Tudea, and the Syrian kings [from a story told by Justin and Appian] in general, upon coins it denotes naval victory. ANCYRA, Phrygia; APRYPANON, an anchor. ANTIOCH, Capital of Syria on the Orontes; ANTIO- XE12N ; Jupiter seated, holding a victory and scep- tre ; a woman murally crowned, stated upon rocks, . holding a palm branch ; [on the reverse a flaming altar, Montf. iii. p.i. b. 5. c. 11. § 3.] a ram cou- rant regardant, a star above him ; an altar flam- ing ; a lyre. .ANTIOCHIA, Caria on the Mceander; ANTIOXEiiN; pegasus running; a woman standing, sometimes in a tem])le. APAMEA, Syria-, AIlAMEilN; victory standing, holding a crown j Pallas standing, holding a vic- tory 5 an elephant; a thyrsus. Upon the Maeander in Phrygia AIlAMEflN and AHAMElC . an eagle flying over the Majander; Diana of Ephesus.— The S, coins are Cistophori. APHRODISIAS,.Cairo; A«)POAICIEaN; matters relative to the worship of Venus. APHYTIS, J/acedonia; A4»YTAI; one or two eagles couchant. APOLLONIDE.A, Lydia; AITOAONIAEflN ; upon some are the heads of Domitian and Domitia with- out their names. APPOLLONIA, AEtolia-, AIIOAAtl; tusk of a wild boar (from the Caledonian) and spear-head. Crete; A. with a tripod. Illyria; three women dancing, holding by the hand ; a double square, i.e. the pretended gardens of Alcinous; a cow with her calf sucking; a tripod. Mr. Dodwell says (Greece, i. 25), the fire [of ignited hydrogen fixnn Asphaltus pits] near Ajzollonia is represented on a scarce coin, of that city; on one side is the head of Apollo, inscribed A£lPIftN02; reverse, three nymphs dancing before the fire, inscribed ADO and ANAPOMAXOX. Thrace; AHOAA and AnOAAi2NIHTEQ,N EN IIONTO, three women dancing. ARABIA, the camel, perfumes, and incense tree. ARADUS, Ible of Phenicia; APAAKIN and AP; the Acrostolium ; a bull running ; prow of a ship. ARCADIA, Crete; APK.AAQN. Peloponnesus: AP in a monogram ; Pan seated on rocks ; the sy- rinx ; a lyre. ARPI, Italy; APHANflN, APRANOY: a horse running ; a bull butting; a wild boar running. ASCALON, Palestine; a ship; AS and AC and ACKAAO, ASPENDUS, PamphyUa; ESTEEAOYS and AC- ITENAION; atiiquetra. ASSUS, Eolia; ASSI and ACCIilN; a griffin seated ; an ox’s head. ATHENiE, AGE and AGIINAIilN ; an owl ; two owls; sometimes one double-bodied. ATTA LI A, Lydia; ATTAAEilN; attributes of the worship of Bacchus, while those of Neptune dis- tinguish those of the other Attalia. AZETINUM, AZETOS, ^Hica; AZETINilN ; owl on a column, and an ear of corn, BEOTIANS, BOmTliN ; the Beotian buckler, [a fiddic-shajied one, the Gcrra] ; Neptune standing, the right foot on a prow of a ship; a vase, BARCEl, Cyrenaic; B.APKAI and BAP; the syl- l)hium. BASILIS, Greece; an unique medal of this city is preserved in the British Museum. It is a scarce tetradrachm of the finest workmanship, and repre- sents on one side a bearded head, covered with](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0445.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
