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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![lobster: a serpent alone, or twisted round a staflF; a quiver, COSA or COSEA, Thrace, not Italy, as by mistake; KOZiiN 5 a consul marching between two lictors. CIL\B, symbol of Acragas in Sicily, Cos, Hymera, Cuma, Telos, and the Bruttians. CRABS’-CLAWS. See BRUTTII. CRAGUS, Lycia; AYKID and KPA; a lyre. CRANIUM, CRANNIUM, Cephalenia; KPA. rams. CRANUM, Thessaly; KPA and KPAN...N; a horseman galloping. CRETE, KPHTiON; [the towns of Crete often wrote their names on their autonomous coins backwards] ; the labyrinth. CROCODILE, symbol of Nile or Egy])t j some- times it means the shows where one was exhibited to the people, which exhibitions of it commence with Augustus ; chained to a palm tree, as upon coins of Nismes (Nemausus), it means the year when that colony was created, viz. when Egypt was reduced to a province. CROTOxNA, Italy; KPOTiiNIATAS and KPO.; a tripod; sometimes Hercules Bibax; [perhaps from the success of the athletee Crotoniatis and Milo in the Olympic games.] CUIRASS, symbol of Dalmatia. CUM/E, Italy; KYMAmN; a shell, with a lobster; a spear-head. CUPID; walking and playing upon the lyre, coins of Orra j armed and carried by a lion, some coins of Alexander the Great.—Gotha Numar. p. 99. Ann. Reg. Syr. Tab. i. CYBELE, symbol of Brieula in Lydia; armed with a thunderbolt; coins of Pyrrhus and others, CYCLOPS, symbol of Corinth. CYDONIA, KYAflNIATAN; a wolf suckling a child; an eagle flying; a crescent; a bunch of grapes. CYDNA ; KY.; a lyre, CYME, ^olia; KYMAmN and KYMAIOIC; a whole or demi-horse; a vase with a handle. CYRENACE, the sylphium, a plant; head and name of the nymph KYPANA, beloved by Apollo. GYRENE, KYPANAmN; the sylphium; Jupiter Ammon; palm-tree; a lyre. CYTHNUS, Ji/e; KY0NI; a lyre. CYZrCUS; KYZIKHNilN ; a lion's head in profile; a tripod ; capricorn ; two fish. DACIA, is represented upon coins by a woman car- rying a javelin with an ass’s head, as an emblem of valour; the ancients deeming that animal in- vincible, and it was chosen in the east for the rid- ing of [u inces. Sometimes Dacia holds an ox’s or a horse’s head, on account of the Paphlago- nian trumpets assimilating the cry of these ani- mals. At other times Dacia is sitting on a cuirass, with a palm and a standard to denote the valour of her people. The coins are AAKIA and DA- CIA. DALMATIA. The only King of whom there are coins, is Mostiss ; symbol a cuirass. DELOS, Isle; AH.; usual type a lyre. Some of the coins struck in Delos, have the sun and moon with AHAIOS on one side, and AHAIA2 on the other; and others have the heads of Apollo and Diana, accolees, with 0E£2N AAEA<E>H,N, because they were boim there. DELPHI. Mr, Dodwell has given some rare auto- nomous. 1. Apollo Kitharistos AEA4>ON; re- verse, HY0IA within a wreath, under the insci’ip- tion the three pointed rocks of l^arnassus. 2. Same; reverse, a tripod 3. Ram’s head, dol- phin ; I everse, AAA, in an indented square, and a goat’s head with a dolphin suspended from each horn. DIANA. Bust of her with a quiver on the shoulder, - on the other side, a boar’s tusk, and spear head; a coin of Apollonia in Etolia (Rec. de Medail. du peupl. et de villes, t. i. pi. xiv.) Upon a coin of Daldia in Lydia, she is accompanied with two nymphs, the stag and Acteon. Her figure occurs upon coins of Mytilene, Ephesus, Crete, Hierocae- sarea in Lydia, some of Amyntas King of Galatia. (Rec. des Rois, pi. xix.) and of Antiochus VIII. King of Syria (Id, pi. xii.) The Ephesian Diana occurs u])on coins of Domitian, Trajan, Sabina, M. Aurel. Commodus, Mammma, Otacilia, Etrus- cilla, and Gallienus with the legend APTEMI2E- <[>IIECIA or E4>ECIilN, Upon a Domitian she is called APTEMI20A04>nNIA, Colophon being a neighbouring town to Ephesus with the same figure, &c. i. e. between two stags, with the breasts](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0448.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
