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

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Metal
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IE
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M M
M
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Size Weight
4
4+
4
2+
H
4i
5-4
4
41
92-4
90-3
741
26-2
22-7
ASIATIC GREECE.
®eAN PiiMHN. Female head crowned with modius to r. B. CIAANAeaN. Naked
figure to I. ; in right hand, patera ; in left hand, branch. Electrotype from the
B.M.
SILLYUM Pamphyliffi.
Note.—The Rev. E. T. Daniell has left us (ap. Spratt, ii. p. 18) an account of the ruins of a well
fortified ancient city on the heights which overlook the left bank of the Cestrus, and in sight from the
ruins of Perga at Mortana, from whence they are six geographical miles distant. This place he supposed
to be Sillyum ; but this cannot be considered certain until some of the other ancient sites in
the unexplored country between the rivers Calycadnus and Cestrus are fixed.
Bearded helmeted head to r. R. CIAA(v£w>'). Male figure, in short tunic, to I. ;
right hand extended ;
in left hand, ?.
SINGAEA Mesopotamise.
Note.—The three cities of Upper Mesopotamia, Rhesaina, Nesibi, and Singara (now Sinjar) resembled
each other: 1. In having been Greek colonies, established by Roman emperors. 2. In
having had names differing only by their Greek terminations from the indigenous names which are
still in use. 3. In having been situated near the sources of rivers flowing from the two former
places into the Euphrates, from Singara into the Tigris.
Gordianm Junior and Tranquillina.
AYTOK.K. M. ANT. rOPAIANON CAB(iva)TPANKYAAINA CeB. Heads of Gordianus
and Tranquillina opposed. R. AYP. cen. KOA. CINFAPA. Veiled and turreted
female figure seated to I. ; on head, Sagittarius, shooting to I. ; in her
right hand, ears of corn ; in left hand, ? ; at her feet, river-god swimming to r.
Another similar.
Note.—From these coins, it appears that Singara was colonized by M. Aurelius or L. Verus, and
that it was among the numerous cities of the East grateful for the favours of Septimius Severus.
SINOPE Paphlagonise, sive Ponti.
Note.— Sinope, a name still known to the Greeks, and slightly corrupted by the Turks, was said to
have been founded by the Argonautse, and named from Sinope, daughter of the Boeotian river
Asopus. It was afterwards occupied and colonized by the Milesii, and finally received a Roman
colony (Strabo, p. 546. Apollon. 2, v. 948. VaL Flac. 5, v. 110). This occurred, as appears by the
coins of Sinope, in the time of Julius Csesar.
Head of the nymph Sinope to I., with ear-rings and necklace ; in field to ?., acrostolium.
B. SINil. 0EOT. Eagle, with open wings, standing on tunny-fish to I,
Head of Sinope to I. H. 2IN . . AIO. . Same type.
Head of Sinope to ?., with
ear-rings, ft. SINil. KAP. . Same type.
Turreted female head to I. ft. siNii. Eagle with expanded wings, adv., looking to I. ;
in field to I., ; grapes to r., a mon.
Head of
Sinope, adv., with ear-rings and necklace, ft. Same legend and type, without
symbol or mon.
Head of Gorgo, adv., in centre of JEgis. ft. . INiillHS, Victory standing to r. ;
on left shoulder, paJm-branch held by both hands.
Another similar.
Head of Jupiter to r. ft. Same legend. Eagle, with wings expanded, standing on
fulmen, adv., looking to r. ; in field to I., mon. 78.
Another ; monogram indistinct.
Head of Pallas to r. ft. . . NiMHS. Quiver.