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

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ASIA. 53
Nero,
NEPaN ilEBASTOS. Head of young Nero to r. R. EYMENEiiN lOYAIOS KAEliN
APXIEPEYS AHIAS. Neptune naked standing to I. ; in right hand, dolphin ;
in left hand, trident and chlamys.
Gallienus.
AY. K. no. AIKIN. rAAAIHNOC. Head of GaUienus to r, B. eYMGNeflN
AXAIiiN. Fortune to I. ; in field to L, 0.
6ABA Trachonitidis.
Note.—There were several towns in Syria of this name or nearly resembling it, but the Gaba, or Gabse,
to which the extant coins belong, was that which Josephus (B. J. 2, 18— 3, 3—Vita 24), confirmed by
Eusebius and Hieronymus (in Onomast.), places at a distance of sixteen Roman miles from Ceesareia,
the Roman capital of Paloestine, at the foot of Mount Carmel in the plain of Esdraleon, and on the
confines of Ptolemais (Akka). Some of the coins of Gaba are inscribed KAAYAI. *IAIII. TABH-
NQN, i.e. KXavliiuiv iiXin-Trdwi/ To/Sqi'apv, where the *t\i7r7rtfwv refers to the benefits received
by Gaba from Philip, son of Herodes I., and founder of Csesareia Philippi when tetrarch of Trachonitis
under Augustus. The KXavSiiwv relates to the Emperor Claudius, to whom Herodes Agrippa was
indebted for his kingdom, of which Gaba was one of the principal cities. Its published coins bearing
the preceding legends extend from Titus inclusive to Antoninus Pius. The exact site of Gaba is
yet to be ascertained. It has been supposed that Gaba, Gabala, and Gamala were one and the same
place (G. W. in Dr. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography), instead of which they were
not only different places, but widely distant from one another. Gabala was on the sea coast between
Laodiceia and Antaradus; and Gamala has been shown by Burckhardt (Syria, p. 271), confirmed by
Lord Lindsay, to have stood at Om-keis, six miles in a direct line to the south-eastward of the
southern extremity of the Lake of Tiberias. The Gabte and Gabba of Steph.mus, on the other hand,
were probably one and the same, as to both he attributes the gentile rABHNOS.
[AYT. KAIC. ANTlL)]NeiNOC CGB. GYC. Head of Antoninus Pius to r. R. TA-
BHNiiN. Lunus in short cloak to I. ; right hand resting on hasta ; in left hand !
in field to r., crescent ; to L, star ; below, ZIC (217), the eighteenth year of the
reign of Antoninus Pius, A.n. 120.
Note.—The sera commenced B.c. 61, when Pompeius Magnus was in Syria.
GABALA Syriffi.
Note.—V. Numismata Hellenics, Asia, p. 61.
Bearded head to r. B. Crab ; below, TABAAeilN ; above, crescent and star.
Trajanm.
NGF. KAIC. TPAIANOC. Head of Trajan to r. R. TABAAGilN. Female crowned
with modius, seated to r. ; in right hand, poppy-head between two ears of corn ;
left hand resting on hasta? at her feet, lion ? in field to /., BNP (152).
Note.—An autonomous coin of Gabala (Mionnet, v. p. 233) represents a seated female, the right
hand uplifted, and a vase in the left hand. It may represent, perhaps, the same person as this coin
of Trajan, namely, Doto, one of the Nereids (Hesiod. Theogn. v. 246), who, according to Pausanias
(2, 1, § 8), had a temple at Gabala. The tera of Gabala commenced B.C. 47, when Julius Csesar
visited Syria, after having taken Alexandria ; 152 therefore is a.d. 105, the seventh year of the reign
of Trajan.
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