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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![I LEGENDS AND SYMBOLS OF COLONIAL COINS. sus, Locrian Epicnemedians, Minya, Soli, in Cy- prus. GR.WISC/E, Italy; FPA.j two eagles laid on a thunderbolt. GREECE, coins of. The first coinage was of silver, and the most ancient have an indented mark on one side, and a tortoise on the other. The earli- est have no letters, but the later have AIFI. The legends are very short, with only the initials of the city or Prince, as AGE. Athens, SY. Sybaris. The gold coinage is not anterior to Philip of Ma- cedon. GRIFFIN, symbol of Abdera, Assus, Caene, Panti- capaeum, Phocea in Ionia, Smyrna, Teos, and Chersonesus in the Taurica; drawing the car of Apollo, they occur upon a coin of Commodus; one carrying Apollo with his lyre, upon a coin of Alexandria in the Troad j accompanied with Pan^ , upon one of Panticapaeuim GYRTON, Thessaly; FYPTi2NilN; ahorse pranc- ing. HERACLEA, in the Qjrenaic; HPAKAEIA. The coins struck in the other Heracleas are distin- guished by the Barbary or large tailed sheep, Acarnania, IIPAKAE12TAN 5 a lion running. Italy, HPAKAHIiiN 5 Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion ; a lion conrant. HERCULES, symbol, building a trophy, coins of the tyrants of Heraclea in the Pontus. Standing with his attributes, Heraclea in Italy, Thermae, Strangling a lion, Heraclea in Italy, Suessa, Ta- rentura. Combating the Hydra, Phaestus. Com- bating the Stymphalides, Stymphalus. Seated, Thasus. Armed with a thunderbolt, Naxos, HIERAPOLIS, Phrygia; lEPAHOAEIXaN and lEPAIIOAIC; Bacchus; Esculapius; a serpent; a tripod. HIERAPYTNA, Crete; lEPAHYTNIiiN; a screech owl; a palm-tree. H1MERA, Sid/y; IIIMEPAION; a cock couchant. a lobster; an ox with a human head; three grains of corn. HIPPONIUM, in Italy, afterwards Valentia; a vase; innONIEiiN and mnONIEIiiN. HIPPOPOTAMUS, symbol of the Nile upon Egyp- tian coins. It also occurs upon coins of Syracuse, 333 Lampsacus, and upon medals, struck in memory of the games,—See Spanh. Numism, Diss. 4. p. 172. HORSE; feeding Alexandria in the Troad, La- rissa, Troas in the Troad, Bottiaea; running, Arpi, Velia, Magnesia, in Thessaly, the Gauls, Termessus, Gyrton, Laryssa, Maronaea, Salapia, Santones, Syracuse, Thessalians, Salonica; demi- horse, or the head only, or whole couchant, MgsB, Carthage, Ceos, Colophon, Nucrinum, Cyme, Laryssa, Pharsalus, Rome, Tricca, Phrygia, Epic- tetus, Minya; two horses, Suessa. HYGIEA, coins of Sala. HYLAS, holding a vase, of Cius in Bithynia, struck in honor of Alexander Severus, ICONIUM, EIKONEMN ; the types are relative to Perseus, INO, precipitating Melicerte into the sea; symbol ' of some coins of Corinth, after it became a Ro- man colony. lOS, Isle; IHTON; head of Homer. ISSA, an Isle on the coasts of Illyria. Neuman ascribes here some coins marked IS and S. [Mr. Dodwell has a head of Minerva ; reverse, a Diota, legend, IS ; same, with reverse of a deer ; ano- ther, a female head, reverse, a star, legend, ISSA; the Diota probably alludes to the good wines, mentioned by Athenaeus, Greece, ii. 7.] In the Isle of Lesbos. Neuman has published a coin with a star for type. ISTI^A, Ewtea; ISTIAIEilN; bull; demi-biill or head only; a bunch of grapes; a woman seated on the prow of a ship, holding a sail. ISTROPOLIS, Mcesia; ISTPIH ; two human heads, one inverted; an eagle laid upon a dolphin. ITANUS, Crete; ITANIilN; an eagle couchant re- gardant. ITHACA, an Isle; IGA. and IGAKilN'. An auto- nomous, with IGA.; reverse, a bearded head, dressed with the Pilidion or egg-formed cap of Ulysses. Combe. Another with IGAKilN; ob- verse, the same head ; reverse, a cock.—Neuman. [Mr. Dodwell (Greece, i, 7L) mentions a head of Ulysses, covered with the pilidion and having the ^(pyvoTTuywv, or pointed beard; reverse, a cock, Galeated head of Minerva; reverse, Ulysses, in his](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0451.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
