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Numismata hellenica: a catalogue of Greek coins; with notes, a map ...

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Metal<br />

M<br />

M<br />

Size<br />

9<br />

M 6<br />

.E •'2<br />

M<br />

M 4+<br />

Weight<br />

ASIATIC GREECE. 91<br />

Commodm.<br />

AYT. K. M. AYP. KOMMOAOC ANTaNINOC. Bust <strong>of</strong> Commodus to r, R. NIKO-<br />

MH Female, <strong>with</strong> modius on head, seated to I., <strong>with</strong> an<br />

octastyle temple in each hand.<br />

A. AYPHAIOC KOMOAOC K. Bust <strong>of</strong> Comraodus to n R<br />

NeilKOP. NeiKOMH. Ceres standing to r. in a tetrastyle temple; in right<br />

hand, hasta ; in left hand, ears <strong>of</strong> corn,<br />

Julia Domna.<br />

[OYAIA CGBACTH. Head <strong>of</strong> Julia Domna to r. R. NIKOMHAeiiN AlC Nesi-<br />

KOPaN. Pallas, adv., looking to I. ; in left hand, spear and shield ; in right<br />

over an altar <strong>with</strong> fire.<br />

hand, patera,<br />

NICOPOLIS Judsese sive Palajstinffi.<br />

Note.— Emmaus, which was situated on the road from Yaffa to Jerusalem, at the ascent <strong>of</strong> the<br />

mountains, where some remains <strong>of</strong> antiquity are still to be seen, received the name <strong>of</strong> Nicopolis from<br />

Vespasian, after the capture <strong>of</strong> Jerusalem. It was not the same place as the Ammaus which, by the<br />

same emperor's command, was occupied by 800 Roman Emeriti. This place was no more than sixty<br />

stades from Jerusalem (Joseph, de B. Jud. 7, 27). Emmaus, or Nicopolis, was distant from thence,<br />

according to the Jerusalem Itinerary, twenty-two M. p. Eckhel, who supposed the two places to have<br />

been one and the same, is at a loss to account for the <strong>coins</strong> <strong>of</strong> Nicopolis having no appearance <strong>of</strong><br />

being colonial. There is no reason to believe that Emmaus ever was a Roman colony.<br />

Trajanus.<br />

AYT. K. (NeP. TPA)IANOC CCB. TCPM. A(AK). Head <strong>of</strong> Trajan to r.; coun-<br />

termark, LXV. B. NeiKOnOA(eUJC eTO)YC MB (year 42). Victory stepping<br />

to r. <strong>with</strong> palm-branch and wreath. From the Pembroke Collection (1256),<br />

cited hy Eckhel, iii. p. 474, and Mionnet, v. p. 550, No. 185, but who mistakes<br />

in describing it as <strong>of</strong> size 9.<br />

Note.—The commencement <strong>of</strong> the sera <strong>of</strong> this Nicopolis being a.d. 71, this com was struck in a.d.<br />

113, the fifteenth year <strong>of</strong> Trajan.<br />

NICOPOLIS Seleucidis Syrise.<br />

Note.— According to Stephanus and Eustathius (in Dionys. Perieg.), there was a Nicopolis on or<br />

near the site <strong>of</strong> Issus, and so named from the victory <strong>of</strong> Alexander over Darius. But Strabo distinguishes<br />

Nicopolis from Issus, though he names the former among the cities <strong>of</strong> the Issic Gulf<br />

(p. 076). There may be, perhaps, some textual fault, as the geographer seems to include among the<br />

same names that <strong>of</strong> Mopsuestia, which stood on the river Pyramus, fifteen or twenty miles from the<br />

shore <strong>of</strong> the Issic Gulf. There is little prospect, therefore, <strong>of</strong> determining the position <strong>of</strong> Nicopolis<br />

<strong>of</strong> Seleucis until it is known where its <strong>coins</strong> are generally found.<br />

Commodus.<br />

. . . MAP. AYPH. KOMOAOC AN. Head <strong>of</strong> Commodus to r. ft. CCAeYKIAOC<br />

THC lePAC surrounding a wreath, <strong>with</strong>in which is NGIKOnOAITaN in four<br />

lines.<br />

NYSA Cariifi.<br />

Nate.— The remains <strong>of</strong> Nysa, as they existed more than eighty years since, are described by<br />

Chandler (Asia Minor, c. 63).<br />

Augustus.<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Augustus to r. B. NYSAEiiN. Tripod, <strong>with</strong>in a wreath.

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