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

36 ASIA.
Metal Size Weight
iE 8+
JR
M iE
^
4+
5
5
159-1
163-2
Tyana, the position of which has been determined by Mr. W. J. Hamilton,
how the two other cities could have been, as Strabo says, nearer to Mount Taunig than Tyana, which
commanded the entrance of the Pylse Cilicia;. When Strabo adds that those two cities were posterior
it is difficult to understand
additions to the Tyanitis, together with Cilicia Tracheia as far as the island Elajussa, which was opposite
to the Sebaste of Archelaus, he seems to place tlie two cities to the S.W. of Tyana; tliis being
directly opposed to the evidence of the Tabular Itinerary, according to which Cybistra stood
distance of sixty-four miles to the NN.E. of Tyana on the road to Caesareia Mazaca.
at a
to r. 8. IGPOnOAITQN
[AYT, KAl. M. AYP.] ANTIUNINOC. Bust of Elagabalus
KACTABAAenN. Turreted female to L; in right hand, ears of corn; in left
hand, comucopise.
Note.— The epithet Hieropolis given to this town is explained by Strabo, from whom it appears
that the city was famed for its temple of Artemis Perasia, whose priestesses walked with naked feet
on burning coals without injury.
CELENDERIS Ciliciffi.
Note.—V. Numismata Hellenica, Asia, p. 41.
Horseman to I. seated adv. R. KEAE . . Goat kneeling to I. looking back.
Horseman to r. seated adv. B. KEAEN. Goat kneeling to r. looking back.
Turreted female head to r. ; behind, M. R. KEAENAEPITON. Apollo naked to I. ;
in right hand, plectrum? in left, lyre; elbow resting on column; in field to I.,
H* united.— Eleclrotype.
CERAMUS Doridis.
Young male head to /-., hair in formal curls, hanging on neck (Apollo ?). R. KE-
PAMIH. (Kfpci/nii/rwv) AEQN (a magistrate) in two lines; between them, head
of ox adv.
Note.— Tlie entire circuit of the walls of Ceramus are marked on the Admiralty Chart, No. 1604.
It stood on the northern shore of the Gulf of Cos, at about two-thirds of the distance between Hali-
caniassus and Bargasa, which stood at the inner extremity of the gulf. Although nut large, it gave
name anciently to this magnificent inlet, and appears to have been the only city in it coining money
except Bargasa. How ignorant we were of this part of the coast in 1824, when my " Journal of a Tour in
Asia Minor" was published, may be seen by a comparison of the " Essay of a Map," which accompanied
that volume, with the Admiralty Chart. I remarked in that "Journal" (p. 221) that ejicepting
the positions of Rhodes, Cos, Cnidus, and Halicamassus, nothing was known of those coasts, that no
reliance could be placed on the outlines of the gulfs of Syme and Cos, that even the extent of those
great bays was uncertain, and that none of the positions of the towns and islands placed in them
by ancient authors had been identified ; in short, that tlie exploring of those two gulfs, and of the
coast on either side of Caunus, was one of the most interesting desiderata in the geography of Asia
Minor,—
equally important to British navigation, and to the elucidation of ancient history. Nevertheless,
it was not until 1839 that the beautiful work of the late lamented Captain Graves, R.N., was
executed and given to the public by the Admiralty. During twenty years the energies of Government
and the talents and great qualities of some of her best officers had been employed in surveying a part
of the Arctic regions without any object of practical utility, the impossibility of a north-west passage
for any useful purpose having been already demonstrated by the expedition of 1819-20.
CIBYRA.
Note.— Cibyra was the capital of a large district known as the CibjTatis, and lying between Lycia,
Pisidia, Phrygia, and Caria. Horace (Ep. I. 6, v. 33) mentions Cibyra as a place of extensive trade ;
and Pliny informs us that it was the head of a conventus which comprehended twenty-five cities.
These testimonies agree with the apparent date of its silver coins.