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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![the rich pasturage of Phenike.—Greece, ii. 438, 439. PHENICIANS, <I>OINIKHC and «I>OINEIKAaN; a palm-tree or branch ; a horse j some have Pro- serpine’s head; reverse, a horse’s head with a palm, (Goltz, M. Grec. pi. 12. p, 36). Many coins have Phenician legends, hitherto unex- ])Iained. PHERiE, Thesaly; 4>EPAIi2N; a woman holding a torch, and seated on a horse galloping. PHERAI, Bceotia; ^A.; a vase and Boeotian shield, —Dodwell’s Greece, i. 274. PHILOMELIUM, Phrygia-, ^lAOMEA. and $IAO- MIAEilN; two cornucopias. PHILONOMUS and CALLIAS ; symbol of Catana, because they were two brothers of that place, who carried their parents upon their shoulders, to save them from the flames of .Etna, Other writers call them Amphinomus and Anapius. PHOCEA, Ionia ; and $S1KAI^1N and 4>OKA EilN; a demi-griffin. The legend, Cybele, Mi- nerva, Hercules, and Dioscuri, distinguish the coins from those of Phocis. PHOCIS; 4»OKEI2N and 4>OKI. and ; one or more bulls en face; head of Apollo; the legends and types distinguish these from the coins of Pho- caea in Ionia. See Mr. Dodwell (Greece, i. 193,) of the Phocian coins there published to shew the difference between Archaic style and that of the fine period of the art. PISAURUM, Italy ; HISAYP.; Cerberus, PITANE, Mysia; IIITANAIilN; Telesphorus; a star. PLOTINOPOLIS, Thrace; HAaTEINOnOAEI- TilN; Esculapius, who w’as particularly worship- ped there. PLOUGH, symbol of Centuripae, Enna, Obulco, Me- nae, Leontines, Panormus, Sicilians, Syracuse, and Colonial coins; with wheels, of the Serapronia family, PLUTO, seated, Amastris, Theane,Tium, Marciano- polis, Epiphanium, Nicoraedia; carrying off Pro- serpine, Hierapolis, Orthosias of Caria, Hermoca- pelus, Hermopolis, Cyzicum, Magnates, Sardes, Thyatira, Nyssa, and its associate towns, Chasa- tum, Gordium, Sardis, Sebaste in Palestine, &c. POLYPUS; the Polypus, or rather Vermollusque, called Medusa, is the symbol of Syracuse, POLYRRHENIUM, Crete-, nOAYPHNmN; a spear- head. POMEGRANATE; being called 2iSe in Greek, it is the tyj)e, as an arm6 parlante of the coins of Sid6 in Pamphylia. Some have found it on coins of Rhodes, but D’Aubenton thinks it a simple rose. POMPEIOPOLIS, Cilicia, ol. Soli; HOMnillOnO- AErraN, a bust of Pompey; Kell has published one of Solopolis in the same province with the head of Pompey. As Caesar’s is the first instance of the bust of any living personage on Roman coins, and that only when he was perpetual Dictator, these coins, with the portrait of Pompey, must have been issued after decease by his sons, or some Sicilian city, using Greek characters. PRESUS, Caria ; IIPAISI and HPAICICIN; a bull butting; a bee; a thunderbolt. PRIANSUS, Crete; IIPIANSEIilN; a palm-tree. PROCLA; upon coins ofMitylene are the head and name lOY. HPOKAAN. HPmAA. of Julia Pro- cla, unknown in any other monument. PROCONNESUS, Zile; HPOKON; ademi-stag. PROSERPINE ; her head occurs on the medallions and coins of Syracuse. Some authors have mis- taken it for Arethusa’s. The rape is very com- mon on coins. Pluto is generally represented upon a quadriga, holding her in his arms. So also upon the coins and medallions of Hierapolis, Or- thosias of Caria, Hermocapelus in Lydia, Hermo- polis,Cyzicus, Magnates, Sardes, Tium, Thyatira, Nyssa, and the thirteen associate towns. Those of Chasatum (ibid) have, below the quadriga, a dis- taff and basket of flowers, overturned; those of Gordium, a serpent. Upon a coin of Sardis, and medallion of Sebaste in Palestine, Love flies be- fore the ravisher. (Neum. ii. pi. 3.) A coin of Commodus, struck by the Hyrcanian Macedo- nians, and published by Pellerin, (Peupl. &c. iii. pi. 130. n. 2.) is very fine. Pluto naked, covered only with a floating mantle, is carrying off Proser- pine. Cupid holding a torch in each hand, flies above the car, which Minerva helmeted, running and holding her spear, ready to shoot it, seems to check. A long serpent glides under the horses.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0458.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
