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

Metal
M
JE
M
JE
M
M
Size
3
2i
4-3
3+
Si
3
2
Weight
164-5
iEG^AN SEA. 29
Female head to r. Br. Mon. 19 (riA).
Dolphin to l. ; below which, TEr and waves. B. n ; from the upper bar of which
hangs a grain of barley ; in field to r., FA.
Same type to r., with waves. B. Same type.
Female head, with sphendone ?, to I. B. Same type ; above which, dolphin to r.
Note.—The coins inscribed KE$A have been commonly given to Cephallenia in genere, but one
of the preceding proves that KE$A. stands for KE*AAOS, and that the seated figure annexed
to it is Cephalus, son of Deion, of Athens, who was oiVtori/s of Cephallenia. Cephalus was
fabled to have been carried off in his youth by Aurora ('H/ispa), and hence it is not very unlikely
that the recumbent figure in the eastern pediment of the Parthenon (commonly called the Theseus),
having been immediately opposed to the rising Suu, was intended for Cephalus, the pusture being
similar to that of Cephalus on the coins, and the right arm having evidently rested on a hasta.
PAPHUS Cypri.
Note.— Paphus, situated at the western extremity of Cyprus, was the first place in Greece, where
the Phoenicians introduced the worship of the Assyrian goddess, called by the Greeks Venus Urania.
This worship existed at Paphus in the time of Homer (Od. 9. 362), and probably some centuries
before his time. After the Trojan war, a colony of Arcadians occupied a harbour, situated sixty stades
to the north-west of the Phoenician position, and founded a city, which became one of the greatest
in the island, and which in a very reduced state still subsists under its ancient name. Pausanias says
(8,5) that the first Phoenician settlement was at Golgi, and distinguishes it from Palaepaphus, but it is
more likely that they were one and the same.
Female head to I., with earring ; hair in bunch behind, and crown encircled with an
ornament of alternate flowers and circles (Venus?). B. Dove, standing to r. ;
below, nA*I; in field above, astragalus? — Electrotype from the Bank of England.
PARUS.
Female head to r., hair bound with crossing ribbands, and in bunch behind (Diana ?).
B. IIAPI. Goat, butting, right fore-knee on ground. — Electrotype.
Female head, crowned with ears of corn (Ceres), to r. B. IIAPI. Goat, standing
to r.
Same type. B. Same legend ; same type, countermarked with pomegranate.
Veiled female head to r. (Ceres). B. DAPI. He-goat, standing to r.
Note.—The temple of Ceres at Parus is mentioned in a record of 'IffOTToXtrtla, between Parus
and Allaria in Crete (ChishuU, Antiq. Asiat., p. 137).
Laureate and radiate head to r. (Apollo ?)
field to r., star.
Another similar.
Goat to r. B. HA. Ear of corn.
PEPAEETHUS.
B. IIAPI. She-goat, standing to r. ; in
iVbfe.— Concerning the ancient names of the several islands near the Thessalian coast, called by
Strabo Toij' Mayv^rw)/ i/jjffoe, with my reasons for identifying Peparethvs with the modern Khilidrdr
mia, and Halonesus with Skdpelo, see Tr. in N. Greece, III. p. llj. The comparative abundance of
Peparethian money still extant, as well as the apparent date of that money, accords with the mention
of Peparethus in history. Philip, son of Amyntas, with a view to raise an interest in the .lEgoean
in opposition to that of the Athenians, bestowed his protection on the Magnesian islands (Strabo,
p. 437), and thus Halonesus and Peparethus rose to greater opulence than they had ever before
attained. Peparethus and the contiguous Icus were colonies of the Cnossii of Crete, and the former
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