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

120
Metal Size
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
6-4
5-4
5-4
5
H
U
5+
3-2
5
Weight
117
112-3
101-2
114-7
105-3
115-8
117-8
EUROPEAN GREECE.
female head on the first of the following coins seems from the legend to be a personification of the
city ; the others represent probably Parthenope. Most of the other types relate to the maritime
position of the city.
KVME.
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Female head to r. crowned with bay ; hair hanging down the neck ; pro-
archaic. B. A mussel-shell ; round which, MOIA/VNV)I within a hnear and
a dotted circle.
Diademate female head to r. ; behind the neck, ?. ]J. KVMAION .
Shell and grain
of barley ; all in dotted circle.
Same type. IJ. Same legend and type without any circle.
Female head to r. ; hair turned up and confined by a band. B. Same legend and
types.
Same type. H. KViVV .... Same types.
Youthful head, with hair in formal curls, to /. R. WOIAMVM. Shell ; above
which, serpent, with long beak, crest, and forked tail, to I. ; all in dotted
circle.
Diademate female head to r. R. vioiAMVM. Monster Scylla to r. ; in right
hand, lobster ! ; below, shell.— This and the preceding are Electrotypes from
the B. 31.
Female head to r. R. KVMEO. Mussel-shell.— Electrotype.
CUPELTERIA Samnii.
Note.—This city, by Livy written Compulteria, was taken by Q. Fabius Maximus in the campaign
of the year B.C. 214 against Hannibal It was situated on the confines of Samnium and Ausonia, between
Caiatia (now Caiazzo) and Allifee (now Allife). Here, near Alvignano, a corruption of the
ancient name still exists in that of the church of S. Maria di CoTultere. In a Latin inscription the
city
is called '
respublica Cubulterinorum.'
mVM13Tsl3nv>l . Head of Apollo to l; behind,
r., crowned by Victory flying to r. above it.
Another similar, without s ; below the bull, IS.
51 . R. Andromorphous
bull to
Nate.—The legend Kupeltemum is probably the Oscan form of the Greek KYrEATEPNQM and
the Latin Cubulterinorum, the termination 'um' being the genitive plural, and analogous to the
.iEolic QM.
HEIPONIUM (Hipponium).
Note.—The name Hipponium, which we find in Scymnus, Strabo, and Diodoms, must have been a
corruption, being different in its etymology from the name on the coins, confirmed, as it is, by the
Roman Vibon, which never could have been formed from Hipponium. Possibly, like its sister colony
Mesma, Heiponium was named from a fountain. From Hipponium the southern portion of the great
which is situated
bay of Santa Eufemia was called Hipponiates Sinus. The city stood at Monteleone,
two or three miles from the shore, and preserves remains of the ancient walls. The settlement was
originally a colonial offset from Locri (Strabo, p. 256), which in the year B.C. 193 received a Roman
colony (Liv. 35, 40), when the name was latinized into Vibo, the V representing the initial aspirate,
which on some coins of Heiponium is preserved in the form of E, a letter found on Cretan coins, as
well as in the Etruscan alphabet and in those of middle Italy derived from it. But as usual on Greek
monuments of the fourth century B.C., the aspirate is omitted on the coins of Heiponium of that
time, and the gentile is EIIiaNIEDS. Vibo was also called Valentia by the Romans, and this name
alone is found on coins of Roman times.
EEL Head of Hermes to r. R. Caducous.
Same type. R. LEI. Eagle devouring serpent to r.— This and the preceding an
Electrotypes from the B. M.