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

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ASIATIC GREECE. 131
TEMENOTHYR^ Lydiie.
Njte.—Vfe lenrn from Pausaniaa (Attic. 35) that Temenothyree was a small city of Upper Lydia
(dvoi Avdiag), by which we may suppose him to have meant, especially as he was himself a resident
of Magnesia ad Sipylum, the country watered by the tributaries of the Hermus beyond Sardes. All
else we know of Temenothyree is that the people claimed a Temenus for their founder (Mionnet, iv.
p. 147), that it was a bishopric as early as the Council of Chalcedon in the fifth century, but that its
name is not found in the catalogue of the bishoprics between the times of Leo Sapiens and Andronicus
Palseologus. The discovery at Temenothyree, mentioned by Pausanias, of gigantic fossil bones,
mistaken for human, may possibly interest geologists to assist in fixing the site.
Valerianus.
nOY. 0YAA6PIAN0C (double struck). Bust of Valerian to r. R. KAGO-
BOYAOC (dv£0i)t.f) THMeNO0YPeYCIN. Naked Hercules standing, adv., looking
to I. ; in right hand, club resting on the ground ; on left arm, lion's skin.
TEMNUS sive TAMNE ^olidis.
Note.— It appears from the Tabular Itinerary that Temnus was on the road from Smyrna to Cyme,
and from Pausanias (Eliae. pr. c. 13), the best authority for this part of Asia Minor, that it was to
the right of the Hermus, but its exact situation, like that of most of the cities of .(Eolis, has not yet
been determined.
Head of Apollo to r. R. TA[M]NAIfiN. Draped figure, with modius on head,
standing to r. ; in extended left hand, quadruped to r. ; in field to r., 1 1.
Head of Bacchus to r. R. TA. Grapes, with stem and tendril.
ArNOG ACINIOC TAAAOO. Head of Augustus to r. R. AnOAAAC *AINIOY
TAMNITAN. Head of Bacchus to r.
Note.—Caius Asinius Gallus was Consul in the year 8 B.C., and afterwards Proconsul in Asia, as
appears from this and other coins of Temnus of the reign of Augustus (Mionnet, iii. p. 28 ; Sup. vi.
p. 41). On the present specimen the Temnitte seem to have substituted the complimentary epithet
ATNOC for the praenomen TAIOC.
lePA CYNKAHTOC. Youthful male head (Roman Senate) to r. R. en.
CT(t)aTt)yuv) T. ANTilNGINOY THMNGIT. Two Nemeses opposed.
I6FA BOYAH. Laureate female head to r. (Sacred Council of Temnus.)
R. THMNGITiiN. Cybele seated to I.; in
right hand, patera; left elbow on
tympanum ;
at feet, lion to I.
THMNOC. Turreted female bust to r. R. THMNEITiiN. Fortune standing to I.
Two others similar.
TEOS Ionia.
Note.—
Teos, or Tens (T^oj, lonice Tlwc), was among the places visited by the first mission of the
Society of Dilettanti in 1 764 ; its remains, as existing at that time, have been described by Chandler
(c.27), and in the first volume of the Ionian Antiquities published by the Society ; the principal building
was the hexastyle temple of Bacchus, one of the most renowned specimens of the Ionic order, built by
Hermogenes of Alabanda, who wrote a treatise upon it, mentioned by Vitruvius (3, 2, Prsef. i. 7).
Gryphon with curled wings, open mouth, and tongue protruded, seated to r. ; left
fore paw raised; in field to r., grapes upon a vine-branch. R. Quad, incus,
divided by cross bars into four squares.
Note.—The gryphon was a type of the Sun or Apollo, but as Apollo was sometimes identified with
Bacchus, and in Asia Minor has generally the same feminine countenance, with long hair in ringlets.