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

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134<br />

Metal Size Weight<br />

M 61 121-4<br />

M 83-2<br />

33-8<br />

16-5<br />

EUROPEAN GREECE.<br />

PANDOSIA.<br />

Note.—Pandosia and Metapa were names whicli tlie Pelasgic <strong>Greek</strong>s transplanted from Western<br />

Greece, to the southern coast <strong>of</strong> Italy, many years anterior to the Achsean colonization. Eusebiua<br />

places their foundation in B. c. 774. It was at a much earlier time that other names from the same<br />

countries, as Ame, Pisa, and Elatria, found their way into Tyrrhenia. Pandosia was situated on the<br />

Aciris (now Acri), a name altered from Acheron, the celebrated river <strong>of</strong> the Thesprotian<br />

Pandosia. The Italian Pandosia was situated at no great distance from Heracleia, near the<br />

mouth <strong>of</strong> the Aciris. This appears as well from the Heracleian Tables as from Plutarch (PjTr. 15),<br />

who describes the battle fought between Pyrrhus and the Romans in B, c. 280, as having occurred<br />

between Pandosia and Heracleia.<br />

The names Pandosia and Acheron occurred again at a position in the Brettian mountains,<br />

near Consentia (/iiicpov vitip, Strabo, p. 256). This Pandosia was obviously an <strong>of</strong>fset from the maritime<br />

city for ; the earlier colonies from Greece were all near the coast. The Brettian Pandosia<br />

was said to have been the capital <strong>of</strong> the kings <strong>of</strong> ffinotria, which comprehended Lucania and Brettia j<br />

it is noted also in history for having been the scene <strong>of</strong> the defeat and death <strong>of</strong> Alexander <strong>of</strong> Epirus,<br />

in the year b. c. 332 (Strabo, p. 266. Liv. 8, 24). But we can hardly expect, that any <strong>coins</strong> should<br />

exist <strong>of</strong> a town situated so near to the capital <strong>of</strong> the Brettii.<br />

9P0. Tripod. B^. Bull to r., <strong>with</strong> reverted head— in a sunken rectangle ; above,<br />

PAy ; below. 0< .— Electrotype from the Biblioth^que Nationale.<br />

Note.— In two specimens in the British Museum, slightly differing from the preceding, supposed<br />

to be false, but copied probably from true <strong>coins</strong>, the legend is PA/A<br />

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