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

102 ASIATIC GREECE.
Metal
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Size
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Weight
Sphinx, with curled wings, and crowned with modius, seated to r. R. ANAPON
nPEN. Warrior, in a short tunic, standing to I. ; right hand extended ; in left
hand, hasta.
Another similar.
Note.—In bearing an Egyptian type, the coins of Prenassns resemble those of the
neighbouring
cities Mjudus and lasus.
PRIAPUS Mysi^.
Note.—The advantageous position of this place on a harbour of the Mysian coast, at about a third
of the distance from Parium to Cyzicus, accounts for its having flourished, according to the evidence
of its coins, both autonomous and imperial, during a long course of years. The deities worshipped
here, were Ceres, Apollo, Diana, and Bacchus.
Veiled head of Ceres to r., in wreath of corn. Tjc. nPIAnHNSiN. Stag standing
to r. ; in field to r., cista enveloped by a serpent. Electrotype from the B. M.
Head of Apollo to r. R. Same legend. Lobster or shrimp to r. ; below, ? Electrotype
from the B. M.
PRIENE loniffi.
Note.—The ruins of Priene at Samsun-Kfilesi have been visited by two missions of the Society of
Dilettanti, and described in their works. Vide Chandler, Travels in Asia Minor, c. 48, and the
Ionian Antiquities. The principal building was the temple of Mmerva Polias, burnt by Xerxes and
restored by Alexander the Great, whose inscription recording the fact is still in existence among the
ruins. The Ephesians, we know, refused him this honour. Pausanias mentions the statue of
Minerva in her temple at Priene as among the most remarkable objects in Ionia. The pre-eminence
given to this goddess, as well in the buildings as on the coins of Priene, was due to its having
been a colony from Athens under a son of one of its kings, and, as at Athens, Neptune there re-
ceived honours second only to those of Pallas. Subsequently Priene was colonized from Thebes, and
hence coins are extant with the name Cadme, but still with Athenian types.
Head of Pallas to r. E. IIPIH. AIONY. in a wreath symbolical of the windings
of the Maeander. Frmn the Pembroke Collection (994) cited by Eckhel, ii.
p. 536.
Same type. R. nPI. AMYN. in similar wreath.
Same type. B. IIPIH. Ayi;Aro(pac) in similar wreath.
Owl standing to ^. R EIIAI . Trident in similar wreath.
Head of Pallas to r. R. IIPIH. AXIAAEIAHS in three lines ; owl, adv., standing on
a diota lying on its side ; above, in field to star 1.., ; to r., ? ; all in a wreath of
olive.
PRUSA Bithyni^.
Note.— Prusa irpoj 'OXiixicif or diro 'OXi/nrot; still preserves its ancient name, which is probably
indigenous or earlier than the advent of the Greelis into this country.
The name of Pruaiaa I. was
derived from it. The same king of Bithynia, on receiving Cius, an ancient settlement of the Mile-
sians on the neighbouring coast, from Philip, son of Demetrius, who had besieged and taken it,
changed its name to Prusias; and he, or his son Prusias II., named a second Prusias on the river
Hypius. The people of the three cities were distinguished as IIP0YSAEI2: nP0Y2IEI2 irpoc
QoKdaay, or aVo BaXdaatis, and IIPOYSIEIS Trpig "Tjriy, or otto 'Xiriov.
AYT. AYPHAI. KOMMOAOC
style temple, adv.
Commodus.
Head of Commodus to r. R. nPOYEAEQN. Hexa-
Julia Domna.
lOYAIA AOMNA CGB. Head of Julia Domna to r. R, nPOYEAEiiN. Neptune
standing to r. ; left foot on rock ; in right hand, trident ; in left hand, dolphin.
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