Remarks on the coins of Ephesus struck during the Roman dominion / By John Yonge Akerman.

  • John Yonge Akerman
Date:
1841
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Credit: Remarks on the coins of Ephesus struck during the Roman dominion / By John Yonge Akerman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REMARKS ON THE COINS OF EPHESUS, STRUCK DURING THE DOMINION OF THE ROMANS, In bringing before the Numismatic Society an account of the coins struck at Ephesus, while that city was under the dominion of the Romans, I am well aware that I am risking the charge of attempting to teach many of its members better versed in the subject than myself. Still, believing that I see before me some who are but imper¬ fectly acquainted with the remarkable and important series to which those I am about to describe belong, I shall proceed to notice, in chronological order, such examples as appear to warrant particular description and illustration. Leaving to the learned in classical geography—and this society reckons among its members those who are well qualified for the task—to settle the question of the origin of the city of Ephesus, let us see what ancient writers say of it. Scylax 1 just glances at the city and its port, and gives us no details of its condition in his time. From Plutarch2 we learn, that it was a populous and flourishing city in the days of Ly sander; and we have a much earlier notice of it in Herodotus, who informs us, that when Croesus laid siege to Ephesus, the inhabitants stretched a cord from the walls to the statue within the temple, dedicating the city to their favourite goddess.3 1 'E(f)£croQ kcu Xl/iy/v. 2 In Vita Lysand. 3 Evda hr) oi ’Etptcnoi TioXiopKeogeroi I/7r’ aiirov, civedeaav TYjv 7ro\iv frj ApregLCi, e^uxpavreg lie tov vrjov a^oLViov eg ro re~i^og.
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