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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![CASSOPE, Epirus; KASSflllAIilN ; a dove flying, or couched within a laurel crown. CASTULO, CASTONA, in Spain; CAST. A sphinx. CATANA, SiciZy ; KATANAISiN ; quadriga; biga; the bonnets of the Dioscuri; a winged thunder- bolt ; a woman standing; the brothers Amphino- mus and Anapius, carrying their father and mo- ther. CENTAUR, symbol of Lesbos, Thessalonica, Magne- sia, Thessaly, and Macedonia. CENTURIPA, Cicilia, Sicily; SENTOPiniNftN; a lion passant; a winged thunderbolt; a plough ; a lyre ; a tripod ; a club, CEOS, Isle; KE. and KEiiN ; a deini-horse. CEPHALONIA, Isle; KE.; a ram’s head or a bird. Newman has restored to Pales, in this isle, scarce coins marked KE^A. KE4>HAA. with a man seated on rocks, and holding a long stalF, CERBERUS, symbol ofPisaurium. CHAIR, curule occurs on the coins of Malta. CHALCEDON, Bithynia; KAAKAAONIiiN; a I bull standing. CHALCIS, Ewfcffia j XAAKIAEON; an eagle tear- ing a serpent 5 a lyre. CHARIOT; a car drawn by horses, lions, or ele- phants, signifies, on coins, the apotheosis or tri- umph of a prince; the covered car, drawn by mules, the consecration of princesses, and the ho- nour of carry their image at the games of the circus. CHEESE ; symbol of the Isle of Cythnus, famous for cheese. CHERSONESUS, Taurica ; XEP.; a griffin. CHIM.(ERA; symbol of Panticapaeum, Seriphus,and Corinth. CHIOS, Isle, the modern Scio ; XlilN. XIOS; a winged sphinx; diotse : bunch of grapes; wheat- ears. The old diotae and grapes alluded to the fa- mous Chian wine. CIBYRA, Phrygia; KIBYPATiiN; sometimes the God Lunus. [A young man with or without a Phrygian bonnet, and vice versd with or without a crescent.] CIMOLIS, Isle; KIMS2AI; a trident. CITH/ERON, Rao/ia ; KI0.; three crescents. CIUS, Bithynia, afterwards Prusias; KIANCtN, with this legend and a ship, with the god Lunus. CLAUDIAS, Cappadocia: KAAYAIEON, with this legend, and a woman seated, with a turreted head. CLAZOMEN.®, Ionia; KAAZOMENISIN ; a swan ; a ram,couchant or standing; a demi-boar winged. CLEIDES, Isles; (^without inscription) ; a key, from K\eis a key ; an eagle or bird flying ; a common type of maritime towns. CLUB, surmounted with a monogram, of Tyre. It also occurs behind the heads of the kings of Galatia, and upon the coins of Centuripa, Luceria, the Macedonians, Menae, Thebes, Thessalonica, Tuder, and Valentia in Italy, and Leucadia in Acarna- nia. CNIDUS, Caria; KNI. and KNIAIilN ; a demi-lion, CNOSSUS, Crete; KNilSIiiN ; a labyrinth; a qui- ver ; an eagle displayed. COCK, one or more occur on the coins of Culeno, Himera, Suessa, Teanum, Dardanus, and Ithaca. COLOPHON, Ionia; KOAO«>aNmN; a demi- horse, or attributes of the Clarian Ajjollo. COMANA, Pontus Galaticus; KOMANiiN; the egis, COMMAGENE, the symbol of the country is the commagene of Pliny, a plant which Dalechamp has taken for the Syrian spikenard. COPIA, upon coins, &c. means a magazine of the Roman army there situate. A town in Italy, Copia afterwards Thuria; a cornucopia. CORCYRA, now CORFU, KOPKYPAIiiN; pegasus; the pretended gardens of Alcinous; prow of a ship; a diota ; a trident; a star; an ox’s head. CORINTH, KOPINOION and KOP. and ^ ; pe- gasus ; a trident; a dolphin; Pallas’s head; the chimera. Mr. Dodwell says (Greece, ii. 208), “ I purchased at Corinth a colonial copper coin of that city, on which is repiesented the death of Opheltes; on one side is the head of Domitian, CAES. DOMITIAN AUG.; reverse, C. L. I. COR. a serpent with child in his mouth, and an armed warrior, Adrastus, attacking it. CORSICA. Neumann ascribes to this place an auto- nomous, on which is a Q with three wheat-ears, and two globules, on the other side a woman’s head veiled. CORYCUS, Ciiicia; KClPYKmT; Mercury. COS, Isle, now Stancho; KS2I0N andKiilGlN; a 2 U](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0447.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
