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62<br />

Metal Size Weight<br />

M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

IS.<br />

Z\<br />

H<br />

3<br />

5^<br />

17-6<br />

ASIA.<br />

Philippus Junior ?<br />

, . lOYAIO Head <strong>of</strong> Philip to r. H. ISINAGQN. Fortune to<br />

I. ; in field to I., BP or EP ; to r., X.<br />

LAERTE CiliciEe Tracheiffi.<br />

Note.—The following are the words <strong>of</strong> Strabo (p. 669) in enumerating the places on the Cilieian<br />

coast in the direction from N.W. to S.E. beginning <strong>with</strong> Curacesium, now Alaja: M«rd li to Kopa-<br />

Ktjffiov, ^vtSpa TToXcf, (W<br />

'<br />

Afia^ia ini ^ovvov KaroiKta r(t", i'0op/iov tx***'*'^ ^^'^^ Aaiprij,<br />

^povpiov tTTt X<strong>of</strong>ov /lacrrocif^oDt, iipopfiov txov ; tira ^t\ti/ovc irora/ioc; elra Kpayog. Of these<br />

places there can be no question as to the river Seliuus, at the mouth <strong>of</strong> which, after the time <strong>of</strong><br />

Strabo, stood the city, which having been renovated by Trajan was named Trajanopolis. Beyond<br />

the river south-eastward was Cragus, or Antiocheia ad Cragum, the remains <strong>of</strong> which are described<br />

by Beaufort (p. 185). Laerte, therefore, having been the nearest city to the Selinus north-westward,<br />

is thus identified <strong>with</strong> the " little peninsula <strong>of</strong> rock covered <strong>with</strong> a mixture <strong>of</strong> ancient and modem<br />

ruins," where Beaufort (p. 171) found a " considerable extent <strong>of</strong> ruins stretching up the neighbouring<br />

heights, and, across the neck <strong>of</strong> the peninsula, several slabs <strong>of</strong> marble from eight to ten feet long<br />

placed vertically against the face <strong>of</strong> the rock, and bearing inscriptions, some very long." Beaufort<br />

searched in vain among them for the name <strong>of</strong> the place, but the importance <strong>of</strong> the remains, and the<br />

"small cove " under the |)romontory answering to the txpopfiog <strong>of</strong> Strabo, are sufficient to confirm the<br />

opinion that these are remains <strong>of</strong> Laerte, the native place <strong>of</strong> Diogenes Laertius. The other places<br />

on this part <strong>of</strong> the coast <strong>of</strong> Cilicia Tracheia <strong>of</strong> which there are <strong>coins</strong> corresponding to existing<br />

vestiges, are Coracesium, Syedra, and SeUnus. To all these four the ancient names therefore may<br />

safelv be restored.<br />

AY. KAI. TP. AAPIANOC.<br />

to^.<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Hadrian to r. fit. AAePXeiTlUN. Fortune<br />

LAMPSACUS Mysife.<br />

Note.—V. <strong>Numismata</strong> Hellenica, Asia, p. 72.<br />

Janiform young male head. B- Head <strong>of</strong> Pallas <strong>of</strong> archaic style to I.<br />

AAM. Head <strong>of</strong> Apollo to r. B. [AAMj^A. Sea-horse <strong>with</strong> curved wings to r. ;<br />

under it, ear <strong>of</strong> corn.<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> bearded Bacchus I to r. R. A AM .... Cantharum, in which, grapes ;<br />

in field to r., sea-horse to r. ; to L, mon.<br />

.\Y cenxi rexAC.<br />

winged sea-horse to r.<br />

Geta.<br />

B. AAM'PAIiHNnN in two lines; between them,<br />

LAODICEIA PhrygisB.<br />

N(^.— V. <strong>Numismata</strong> Hellenica, Asia, p. 73.<br />

Turreted female head to r. IJ. AAOAIKEQN in two lines; between them, panther!<br />

to I. ; right foot raised.<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Apollo to r. B- AAOAIKeSiN in two lines ; between them, tripod.<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Bacchus to r. B. AAOAIKBiiN in two hnes; between them, cista mystica<br />

between the stars and bonnets <strong>of</strong> the Dioscuri.<br />

AHMOC AAOAlKGiiN. Bearded laureate head to r. B. n. AIAIOC AIONYCIOC<br />

CABINIANOC in five lines; between the third and fourth, Jupiter Laodicenus<br />

to I. in<br />

long drapery ; in right hand, eagle ; left, resting on hasta.<br />

I

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