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Metal Size<br />

6<br />

6<br />

M 6<br />

M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

4+<br />

Weight<br />

ASIATIC GREECE. 103<br />

Caracalla.<br />

AY, K. M. AYP. ANTiiNINOC CGB. Head <strong>of</strong> Caracalla to r. R. nPOYEAeSiN. Ajax<br />

kneeling on right knee to l, and piercing himself <strong>with</strong> his sword ; below, shield.<br />

Same legend and type. R. Same legend, but the final N in exergue. Same type.<br />

PRYMNESSUS Phrygia.<br />

NoU.—The site <strong>of</strong> Prymnessua has not been determined; but, as the Prymnessii appear from<br />

the following <strong>coins</strong> to have honoured Midas as their founder, there is a presumption that Prymnessus<br />

stood in or near that central part <strong>of</strong> Phrygia which was watered by the Thymbres, and<br />

that the river alluded to on one <strong>of</strong> these <strong>coins</strong> is the Thymbres. We have, indeed, in the Corpus<br />

Inscriptionum <strong>of</strong> Boeckh, Nb. 3818, a marble, copied by a Russian traveller at Seid-el-Ghazi, on<br />

which the name <strong>of</strong> the IIpu/ivijffiTttf occurs; but as the evidence <strong>of</strong> Steuart is supported by the<br />

Tabulai- Itinerary, in showing Seid-el-Gliazi to have been the site <strong>of</strong> Nacoleia, we can only regard<br />

the Prymnesaian marble as having been brought thither <strong>with</strong> other building materials, from the<br />

site <strong>of</strong> Prymnessua, which stood probably in that part <strong>of</strong> the valley <strong>of</strong> the Pursek (Thymbres) which<br />

is nearest to Seid-el-Ghazi.<br />

-MIAAC. Head <strong>of</strong> Midas in Phrygian bonnet, to r. ft. IIPYMNHCCGnN. Rivergod<br />

reclining to I. Electrotype from the B. M,<br />

MIAAO BACIAeYC. Same type. ft. nPYMNHOCIG. Female <strong>with</strong> modius on<br />

head, in long drapery, towards I. ; in right hand, scales ; in left hand, a poppyhead<br />

and ears <strong>of</strong> corn.<br />

the B. M.<br />

Electrotype from<br />

Note.—Thia Prymnessian goddess seems analogous to the Nemesis <strong>of</strong> some other cities, her attri-<br />

butes inculcating that justice and prosperity are allied.<br />

Augustus.<br />

SEBA2T0S. Head <strong>of</strong> Augustus to r. ft. KAIKIAIOS nAOKAMOS. Male figure<br />

to r. ; in right hand, scales ; in left, two ears <strong>of</strong> corn ; below, in two lines,<br />

nPYMNHSSEiiN.<br />

Nero.<br />

nPYMNHSSEIS [NEPilNA KAI2APA]. Head <strong>of</strong> Nero to r. ft. EHI KAAYAIOY<br />

MI0PIAATOY. Beardless figure in long drapery, wearing a round helmet or<br />

cap ; in right hand, balance ; in left liand, two ears <strong>of</strong> corn.<br />

PTOLEMAIS Phceniciffi,<br />

Antiochus VIII. and his mother Cleopatra.<br />

Heads <strong>of</strong> Antiochus and Cleopatra to r. ft. ANTIOXEilN TON EN nTOAEM[AIAI].<br />

Cornucopise.<br />

Note.— Alcka is one among many places in Egypt and Syria which have preserved their indigenous<br />

names from the earliest ages to the present time, although during centuries better known<br />

by their <strong>Greek</strong> names. Akka, the moat influential point on the Syrian coast, has always been an<br />

object <strong>of</strong> ambition to the government <strong>of</strong> Egypt. Ptolemy Philadelphus, when in possession <strong>of</strong> it, gave<br />

it the name Ptolemais. After it had been recovered by the Seleucidse, Antiochus IV. planted a colony<br />

in it, >vhom he called 'Avrioxf^Q iv ry IlroXf/iaiJi. Coins <strong>of</strong> this people <strong>with</strong> the head <strong>of</strong> Antiochus<br />

IV. are extant, as well as <strong>with</strong> those <strong>of</strong> Antiochua VIII. and Cleopatra; one <strong>of</strong> the latter<br />

has the date 189 (<strong>of</strong> the Seleucidse), which was two years after she had shut the gates <strong>of</strong> Ptolemais<br />

against her husband Demetrius II., and thus caxised his death at Tyre.<br />

PYRNUS sive GYRNUS Caris.<br />

Radiate head <strong>of</strong> Apollo, adv. ft. rYPNHilN. Bivalve shell, similar to that <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Italian Cum£e. Electrotype from the B. M.<br />

Note.—The radiate adverse head <strong>of</strong> Apollo agrees <strong>with</strong> the testunony <strong>of</strong> Pliny and Stephanus,<br />

from whom we learn that Pyraus was in the Rhodian Pereea.

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