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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![33G three crescents, allusive to the worship of Diana, on the silver.—Greece, ii. 180. MEG.\RSUS, Cilicia •, MEF. and MEEAPEilN; three crescents. [See Megara, above.] MELITA, Malta; MEAITAIilN 5 MEAITAC ; a divinity with four wings; a tripod; a lyre; a curule chair ; a rani’s head. MELON. See Melos. MELOS, an isle; MHAIilN; a melon; an owl. MEN^, Sicily ; MENAINON ; two torches in sal- tire; a club; a lyre; Esculapius; Victory in a biga. MENDE, Macedonia; MENAIH; symbol, Silenus. MERCURY, Agonios, presiding over games, occurs upon a Greek coin of the Annia family; Mercury is also the symbol of the coins of Rhegium and Sybritus. MESSENE, in Messenia ; MES. and MECCENIilN; a tripod ; Jupiter standing; ademi-Pegasus. MESSINA, Sicily; MESSANIilN, MEESHNItlN, and IIEAilPIAS; a hare running ; a trident; a lion passant; a Victory in a car. METAPONTUM, Italy; META and METAIION- TINDN ; an ear of barley ; three grains of barley. METHANA, in Argolis : MEGANAIilN. Mr. Dod- well says (Greece, ii. 283.), “ We were fortunate in procuring at this place some autonomous coins of Methana, which had never been known to exist, and so small a city might have been supposed to have had no mint. They are of brass: head of Vulcan, known by the pilidion [cap]; reverse, ME in a wreath; on the exergue 0 ; the other has the same head, reverse ^ within a wreath. The 0 head of Vulcan no doubt alludes to the volcano. The Imperial coins, besides the Imperial heads, have figures of Venus, Minerva, and Neptune. METHYMNA, Lesbos; MA0Y. and MII0YMNAI- liN ; a lyre; a diota; a vase. METROUM, Bithynia; MHTP02; a lion seated between the bonnets of the Dioscuri. MILETOPOLIS, Mysia; MEIAIITOnOAEITilN, and MIATOnOAITflN; a double owl. MILETUS, Ionia ; MI in a monogram, and MIAII- LIDN ; a lion standing or couched, turning his head back to look at a star. MINERVA; thundering on the Titans; Phaselisin Lycia.—Pellerin, t. ii. pi. 69. See Pallas, for other symbols. MINOS, King of Crete; KNOSIiiN, Gnossiormn; a head girt with a diadem ; reverse, a labyrinth. MINOTAUR, with the head of a bull, and body of a JippCcirs on n medallion of Gnossus, &rlcl combating with Theseus, upon two coins of A- thens, published by Pellerin. MINYA, Thessaly, MINY; a horse; a bunch of grapes. MOLOSSUS, Epirus; M0A0S2DN; a thunder- bolt within a wreath.—Eckhel. MOPSOS or MOPSUESTIA, Cilicia-, MO^EA- T^IN ; a lighted altar. MORGANTIUM, Sicily; MOPEANTINON; a lion devouring a stag. MYCALESSUS, Bceotia; MY.; the Boeotian (or fid- dle-shaped) buckler. Mr. Dodwell bought one of these at Thebes ; reverse, a thunderbolt.—Greece, ii. 149. MYCONUS, Isle; MYK^NION; two years of bar- ley ; a bunch of grapes. M YL AS A, Caria; MYAACCEIiN ; the bipennis and trident. MYNDUS, Caria; MYNAIilN ; an eagle displayed on a thunderbolt; a winged thunderbolt; a tri- pod ; a bow and quiver. MYRINA, .^o/ia: MYPINAII2N; a woman stand- ing holding a patera and a branch of a tree, or a vase. MYRTLE. The genius of the town of Myrina holds upon some coins a branch of myrtle, in allusion to its Greek name.—Goltz, Greece, tab. 14. MYSIA, Asia; imp. Gr. Domitian. MYTILENE, Eesfcos; MYTIAHNAI; a lyre; termes; a tripod. NAUPACLUS, NAY. NAXOS—US, an Isle; NASim Boustrophedon; symbols all relative to Bacchus, who was born here, viz. a bunch of grapes; a diota; Silenus; a fine female head crowned with laurel, which Winckelman (Stosch) takes for Ariadne, and Beger for Bacchus (Thes. Brand, i. 432); the reverse of one of these is Hercules with a cornu- copia.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0454.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
