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ASIA. 61<br />

IRENOPOLIS Cilicise Tracheise.<br />

Note.—The name Irenopolia was derived from the pacification <strong>of</strong> this part <strong>of</strong> the coast <strong>of</strong> CiHcia<br />

Tracheia in the reign <strong>of</strong> Claudius by means <strong>of</strong> Antiochus IV. <strong>of</strong> Commagene,<br />

as stated in the<br />

note to Anemurium (v. sup.). Irenopolis seems to have been the same city as Zephyrium, tlie<br />

legend <strong>of</strong> a coin <strong>of</strong> Irenopolis <strong>of</strong> Trebonianus Gallus being Zc^tipiuruv 'IptivoiroXtirwv (Mionnet, Sup.<br />

vii. p. 291). Zephyrium received probably this new name on being renovated by Claudius. It was<br />

also called Neronias in honour <strong>of</strong> Nero ; and, although no coin <strong>of</strong> Neronias has yet appeared, the<br />

names Neronias and Irenopolis were both <strong>of</strong> them applied to the city occasionally in the fourth and<br />

fifth centuries <strong>of</strong> our sera (V. Cellarius, ii. p. 204). Zephyrium I am inclined to identify <strong>with</strong> the promontory<br />

and "small sheltered bay" called AghalimSn, described by Sir F. Beaufort (p. 212) ; for<br />

though he has not made mention <strong>of</strong> any ancient vestiges on the cape itself, which is now occupied by<br />

a mediseval castle, he observed some remains <strong>of</strong> Hellenic antiquity to the eastward <strong>of</strong> Aghalimin<br />

towards tlie Calycadnus, particularly a solid building <strong>of</strong> white marble forty feet long and twenty<br />

broad, apparently the cella <strong>of</strong> a <strong>Greek</strong> temple. The proximity <strong>of</strong> Zephyrium or Irenopolis to the<br />

Calycadnus is alluded to on several <strong>of</strong> the <strong>coins</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Irenopolitae by a river-god and the usual type<br />

<strong>of</strong> a vase, from which water flows. The passage <strong>of</strong> Strabo (p. 669), which tends to leave the reader<br />

in doubt whether Zephyrium was situated to the eastward or westward <strong>of</strong> the Calycadnus, has been<br />

satisfactorily explained by Beaufort, who shows that Cape Cavaliere was the ancient Sarpedon,<br />

beyond which Antiochus III. was restricted from passing by his treaty <strong>with</strong> the Romans in the year<br />

B.C. 188 (Liv. 38, 38) ; and that the long sandy point formed by the deposit <strong>of</strong> the Calycadnus was<br />

the promontory Zephyrium, the town or its citadel having stood on the opposite cape <strong>of</strong> the great bay<br />

<strong>of</strong> Zephyrium, that is to say, at Aghalim^n.<br />

Domitianus and Domitia.<br />

AYTOKPATiiP AOMITIANOS K. AOMITIA SGBB. Heads <strong>of</strong> Domitian and Domitia<br />

opposed. a. IPHNOnOAeiTON GTO. TM (43). Fortune to I; in right<br />

hand, rudder ; in left hand, cornucopise ; in field to I., star.<br />

KAICAP TPAIA .<br />

on ? wheel to<br />

ZM (47).<br />

Trajanus Cwsar.<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Trajan to r. B. IPHNOnOAeiTON. Winged figure<br />

; right hand to mouth; in left hand, caduceus (Nemesis?);<br />

Severus Alexandrus.<br />

AY. K. M. AYP. ceo. AAe»ANAPO. Head <strong>of</strong> S. Alexander to r. B. IPHNOno-<br />

AITON. Female seated on rock to I. ; at her feet, river-god swimming? before<br />

her, Victory on globe to r., <strong>of</strong>fering crown.<br />

Gordianus III. ?<br />

AYT. K. M. ANTONIOC TOPAIANOC. Head <strong>of</strong> Gordian to r. B- eiPHNOnO-<br />

AeiTON ex.; in exergue, B^P (192)? Asclepius and Hygieia opposed.<br />

Note.—That the sra <strong>of</strong> Irenopolis commenced in the reign <strong>of</strong> Claudius we cannot well doubt, but<br />

in what year is not quite certain ; if, as some numismatists suppose, it was a.d. 52, it began about<br />

two years before the death <strong>of</strong> Claudius.<br />

ISINDA Pamphylise.<br />

Xfote.—V. <strong>Numismata</strong> Hellenica, Asia, p. 70.<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Jupiter to r. B. ISIN. Horseman galloping to r. ; under the horse,<br />

serpent.

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