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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![NEA, Isle of the Egeaii seaj NE; Minerva or her attributes. NEAPOLIS. \. Palestine i COL[onia] NEAP[oHs]; COL. SERG[ia] NEAPOL. 4>A[avia] NEACH. (on the Imp. Gr.) 2.Caria; NEAII. with a bunch of grapes. 3. Macedonia ; NEO. a mask. Italy ; NEO- nOAITON, NEOnOAITHS ; a whole or demi-ox with a human head; a lyre j a horseman gallop- ing j a tripod j a cornucopia. NEMAUSUS, Nismes in Gaul; C. COL. NEM. a crocodile fastened to a palm-tree. It means the year when this town was created a colony, i. e. the year when Egypt was reduced to a Roman pro- vince. There is also a bizar coin, with a stag’s foot, upon which appendage there is a disserta- tion by Bon, in the Memoirs of the Academy of C'rotona. Count Caylus thinks (Rec. ii. pi. 98. n. 2.) that these coins were sold only at Nismes for ex votos to Diana, to be worn for superstition, or thrown into a fountain consecrated to her. NEPTUNE, standing on the coins of the Boeotians, Posidonia and Tenos; standing or sitting, hold- ing the trident, and acrostolium or a dolphin, upon those of Bysantium, Carteia. NEREIDS, coins of Agrippina struck at Corinth and Marseilles. NICASIA, an Isle, ol. Icaria; Strabo (xiv. 638.) says, that there was at Nicasia a temple of Diana, called Tauropolium: and Goltzius has the type of a coin, on one side representing a Diana huntress, and on the other a person seated on a bull with Ik-aptwv. This person might be taken for Europa; but, according to Nonius, it is rather the same Diana, the bull marking the abundance of the pasturage of the isle, and the protection of the goddess. NICOPOLIS, Epirtis; NEIKOHOAEliC and NIKO- nOAEiiC; this town was founded by Augustus in commemoration of the victory at Actium. This historical fact is marked on two coins, both which have on one side the head of Augustus, with this Greek inscription, hefSaaros ktktis, Augustus found- er, and on the reverse one has, in the middle of a rostral crown, a palm with these words, lepa Nt- KOTToXis, the sacred Nicopolis; and the other, the head of a boar, pierced with two arrows, and the word NeuroTToXeosjMcopoleos. It was the head of the Caledonian boar, which was kept at Tegea in the temple of Minerva, and transferred by Augustus to Nicopolis, in order to punish the Tegeans for having followed the party of Antony. NISYROS, Isle in Asia Minor; a dolphin. NOLA, Italy; NOAAlilN; an ox with a human head. NUCCRIA, NUCRINUM, Italy; NUCRINUM in Etruscan letters, or NOYKPINtlN ; a naked man holding a horse or a dog. OBULCO, in Spain; OBVLCO; a plough, with an ear of barley below; a bull standing. OENIADiE, Acarnania ; OINIAAAN; an ox with a human head, a human head, seen h mi-corps. Mr. Dodwell says, the autonomous CEniadae are not uncommon, and generally have the head of-Ju- piter on one side, and that of Achelous on the other, represented as Sophocles describes it in his Trachinise, under the form of a human face with horns, upon a bull’s neck, round which is the in- scription OINIAAAN.—Greece, i. 101. OETAI, Thessaly; OITAI; a boar’s tusk, or a spear- head, types relative to the Calydonian boar. Mr. Dodwell says, obverse, a lion’s head; reverse, a long spear with a jaw bone of a boar, and OITAilN, head of Apollo; reverse, OITAIiN, a lance; bunch of grapes and jaw-bone of a boar ; an arrow, qui- ver, and jaw-bone; reverse, two shields and two lances; head of a lion and head of a lance; re- verse, OITAIIN, Hercules erect with his club ; Drachmas, lion’s head; reverse a naked figure holding a sword, OITAON; lion’s head with an arrow in his mouth ; reverse, Hercules with a ra- diated head, holding his club, legend from right to left, NiilATIO.—Greece, ii. 76. OLBIOPOLIS, Sarmatia; OABIO; an eagle laid on a fish. OLYMPUS, Lycia; OAYM.; a lyre. OPUNTII, Locris; 0II0NTII2N; a naked man helmeted, standing, marching, holding a sword and buckler; a diota; a bunch of grapes; a star. ORCHOMENOS, RcBOiia; Dodwell says the only coins of Orchomenos, which have as yet been found, are the small G. of which there are some 2 X](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0455.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
