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

Metal Size Weight
JE
M
M
M
M
M
8+
7
4
H
164-7
164
260-2
ASIATIC GREECE. 113
SIBIDONDA Phrygise.
JVo'e.—It is only upon the presumption that this is the same place as the 2ii//3ei/5oc of the Notitlse
Episcopatuum that I suppose it to have been in Phrygia, that place having been a bishopric under
the metropolitan of Synnada,
lOYAIA AOMNA ce. Head of Julia Domna to /•. R. CIBIAOYNAGSIN. Bacchus
standing to l, naked, except the legs ; in
right hand, empty cup, below which,
panther ; in left hand, thyrsus. Ukctroiifpe/rom the B. M.
SIBLIUM Phrygise.
iVo«e.—Siblium was situated near the sources of the Meeander (Cinnam. p. 174).
It was fortified
by Manuel Comnenus, but afterwards dismantled (Nicet. Ann. pp. 115, 124), and it was a bishopric
under the metropolitan of Laodiceia. Having flourished at so late a time, some remains of it pro-
bably still exist.
no, Cen. TCTAC KAI. Bust of Septimius Geta to r.
figure, adv., towards r. ; in right hand, hasta ; in
from the B. M.
SIDE Pamphylige.
B. CGIBAIANON. Naked
left hand, ?
Electrotype
Note.—Arrian relates (i. 27) that at the time of the march of Alexander through Asia Minor,
" the Sidetse, who were a colony from Cyme in ^olis, had forgot their mother tongue, and spoke a
barbarous language, which differed even from that of the neighbouring barbarians." The beautiful
silver coins of Side, as well as those of its nearest neighbour, Aspendus, prove that the word /3dp-
|3apof could only be applicable to either people as speaking a non-Hellenic language. That in this
sense they were barbarians may indeed be inferred from the legends of their coins. But it is very
remarkable, with regard to the difference in the Sidetan and Pamphylian tongues, alluded to
by Arrian, that the legends on the coins of Aspendus and Side differ in their alphabet. On the
former, the Pamphylian name is represented in Hellenic letters ; on coins of the latter city, the
legends are in letters, some of which appear to be Phoenician and others Greek. The Duke de
Luynes supposes them to be Palmyrenian (Numism. des Satrapies, p. 23).
The extensive remains of Side, on a desert promontory, thirty-five miles east of Attaleia, and
known to the Turks by the name of Esky-Adilia (Old Attaleia), have been described by Sir Francis
Beaufort in his Karamania, p. 1 47.
Pallas Nicephorus standing to I. ; in field to I., pomegranate {allr^ ; in field to r.,
three PhcBnician letters ; all within a circle. B. Nine Sidetan letters. Vide
Mionnet, pi. xxii. Male figure naked, with the exception of a pallium over his
shoulders, standing to I., with a patera in right hand over an altar ; in left hand,
a long staff with leaves sprouting from it. Electrotype.
Same type and symbol, without letters. R. Same legend. Same type, but behind
the left leg of figure, eagle, and between his hand and the altar, two letters.
Electrotype.
Head of Pallas to r. B, Victory stepping to I. ; in right hand, garland ; left hand
holding up drapery ; in field to I., pomegranate ; below which, AI.
243-5 Same type. R. KAEYX. Similar type and same symbol.
59-7
B. Same legend, type, and symbol.
Head of Pallas (of Side) to r., with a countermark on it. B. SIAH-
Victory to r., with Same type.
SIAHT(7)c).
in field pomegranate to I. as before,
TQ[N]
with countermark, but without legend. B- Same type and symbol ;
Same type
same legend, but parallel
to the figure.
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