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

Metal Size Weight
JE
M
M
M
M
M
M
JR
3+
3+
1 +
4
3^
6A-5
175
168
15-2
yEG^AN SEA.
ANAPHE.
JVote.—Anaphe is near Thera to the eastward {AaKUviSi yiirova Sfipy, Callim. ap. Strabon.
p. 484), and was said to have been so called, because Apollo here appeared to the Argonauts (dr«.
Zofiivotg avitjitive, ApoU. Argon. 4, y. 1718), and conducted them to a sheltered port. Hence the
worship of Apollo and its temple of Apollo ^gletes (Strabo, ibid.), of which there are stUl some
Head of Apollo, adv.
bee.
Another.
B. AN. Diota, a wide open drinking cup ; above which,
ANDRUS.
Monota. H. A. Diota, the usual cantharus of Bacchus.
Head of beardless Bacchus to r. R. Thyrsus, near which to l, grapes ; around,
ANAPI, beginning from the right.
Same type. Be. Amphora ; upon which, cantharus, as countermark ; in field,
in two lines, ANAP.
Head of bearded Bacchus to r. R. Cantharus ; around, ANAP, beginning from r.
Head of beardless Bacchus to r. B. Thyrsus ; in field, in two lines, ANAP.
Young
ANTISSA Lesbi.
Note.—Antissa occupied the site of the present Sigri, on the side of a bay which is protected
from the west by a long naiTow island. Anciently this island contained a city named Nesiope, of
which coins are extant. Tlie Siypiov of Strabo, from which the island, as well as the town and
harbour, now take their names, was a neighbouring promontory to the south, and the western
extremity of the island Lesbus.
diademate head to r. R. ANTI2.
hair behind, and no neck (masque ?).
APTARA,
Grotesque head, with long pointed beard,
sive APTERA Greta.
Note.— Aptera has been proved by Mr. Pashley, from a comparison of ancient evidence with the
topography, to have stood at Paledkastro, near the southern shore of the Gulf of Sudha, and nearly
opposite to the island of that name ; and this is confirmed by his remark, that " half the coins found
in digging on the spot are coins of Aptera." — Tr. in Crete, I. p. 48.
[A]nTAPAIilN. Female head to r., with broad decorated diadem, partly covered by
turned up hair; long earring ; in field, near the face, in small letters, PYBA (artist's
name ?). R. FTOAIOIROS, in two lines ; between them, warrior with spear and
shield in left hand, his right extended over a tree.— Electrotype from the
BihlioiKique Rationale.
APTEPAIilN. Similar type of later time, small earring and necklace. R. PTO-
AlOIKOS, in one line. Similar figure, his hand touching the tree ; in field to
I., mon. 1 (PA or AP).— Electrotype from the B. M.
Note.— nroXioiKoc, a word which occurs nowhere else, is equivalent, not to noKiovxoQ, which is
applied only to a deity, but to TroXewf oiViffrijc, and shows that tlie figure is that of the reputed
founder of the city, the Apteras of Eusebius and Parthenius, and the Pteras of Pausanias,
according to whom Pteras was a man of Delphi, who had built one of the early temples of Apollo at
that — sanctuary airb tovtov Si tov Xlrcpd Kai TToXtv Kpr]TiK>)v irpoaOriKy ypafifiaros 'ATrrepaiouf
^aalv 6voiiaK(a6ai,Va,asa,n. 10,5. His action here appears to be that of the sacred bay.
plucking a branch from