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

Metali Size
M
M
M
M
H
05
4.1
5-
Weight
121
123-4
118-2
116-7
116-1
118-2
llS-6
119-6
ITALY. 151
with his remark, that Tempsa was the next town in the Brettia to Laus, because Terina, if Temese
was at Santa Eufemia, must have intervened. It is to be observed, however, that there was a
Tempsa Montana, or elevated plain, still called Campo Temese, which Swinburne (iv. p. 301)
traversed in crossing the mountains from the valley of the Sybaris into that of the Laus, and which
thus corresponds in situation with the description of Strabo. Here possibly were the mines, from
whence came the copper which was shipped at Temese, and Strabo may have confounded the two
places. It would not be difficult to ascertain whether any vestiges of mines or traces of copper are
to be found in this part of the country, and the question is curious with reference to the history of
ancient commerce.
Helmet to r.; below, TEAV. ft. Tripod; on either side of which, leg-armour
{Kyrjfik)- — Electrotype from the BilliotBqm Nattonale.
iVoJ«.—Here the tripod, as well as the pieces of armour, seem to allude to the purpose for which
the copper of Temese was sent to Greece, at the same time that they were symbolical of the worship
of Apollo and Mars. In exchange for the materials of their defensive armour, the Greeks sent iron
to make swords, or perhaps the swords themselves. Not less than five centuries had elapsed from
that time when the Greek colony of .lEtolians, under Thoas, was settled at Temese (Strabo, p. 255).
TEEINA.
Note.— Although the coins of Terina attest, that it yielded to none of the cities of Ma^na Gr«cia
in refinement and in the ai-ts, which arise from opulence, we know nothing of it from history, except
that it flourished in the time of the Peloponnesian war i. (Thucyd. 104), and that it was destroyed
by Hannibal (Strabo, p. 256), when he could no longer keep possession of it. It still subsisted however
in the first and second centuries of our sera, when it is named by Pliny and Ptolemy, though probably
in a very reduced state, as Strabo states that Neopolis, Rhegium, and Taras, were the only Greek
cities remaining in his time.
From Lycophron, v. 726, and Stephanus, it appears that Terina stood not far from the
Ocinarus,
or Sabbatus, now Savato, but nearer to another river Ares, opposite to the mouth of which was the
island where the Siren Ligeia, sister of Parthenope, was cast ashore. The epithet (iovKepug, which
Lycophi-on (v. 730) applies to the Ares, leads to the belief that it was an object of heroic worship ;
none of the extant coins, however, of Terina, present the symbol of a river in the usual forms of a
bull, or a tauroraorphous man. The island, and the small river opposite to it, are found about
midway between Amantea and the mouth of the Savato ; at no great distance therefore from this
point, the vestiges of Terina might be sought for. The territory of the Terinsei was probably separated
from that of the Nucrini (now Nocera) by the Savato. Then" vicinity is strongly marked by
the exact resemblance of two copper coins of the fourth or fifth size of these two cities, on the
obverse of which is the Samian type of the lion's head, adv. ; and on the reverse the head of Apollo,
with the legend TEPINAIQN on the one, and NOTKPINQN on the other. There are similai- coins
likewise of Rhegium with the legend PHPINQN, which seems to indicate an alliance between these
thi-ee places (Carelli, pi. 181, 195).
TEt>^NA. Diaderaate female head to r. ; hair behind, in bunch. R. AM/ia
Female, standing adv. towards /. ; in right hand, branch ; all in wreath.
Female head to L, with necklace,— hair in ridges tied with cords, with a covering in
front ; all in wreath. R. TEPINAION. Winged female, seated to I. on vase,
lying on its side ; in right hand, garland ; left, resting on vase.
Same type. B AION. Same type.
Same type ; the hair behind turned up. R. TEPI Same type.
TEPINAION. Similar type ; hair tied round with single chord, and in bag behind ;
no wreath apparent. R. Winged female, seated on square pedestal to I. ; in
right hand, garland ; upon the same hand, bird to r., with wings raised ; in
field below, n.
Same legend ; similar type to r., with hair in knot above. R. Female, seated on
pedestal to I., both wings appearing ; in right hand, caduceus ; in left, garland.
Similar type, a diadem decorated in front, the remainder covered by rolled-up hair ;
behind the neck, O* ; all in wreath. R. TEPINAION. Winged female, in