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10 ASIATIC GREECE.<br />

Metal<br />

JE<br />

M ^<br />

JE<br />

JR<br />

M<br />

^<br />

Size<br />

4i<br />

H<br />

^<br />

4<br />

4<br />

9i<br />

/E 64<br />

Weight<br />

44-7<br />

38-8<br />

41-9<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Jupiter to r. B. Same legend. Eagle, <strong>with</strong> expanded wings, standing on<br />

fulmen to I., looking to r. ; in field L, mon. 17.<br />

Note.— These types on both sides are found on <strong>coins</strong> <strong>of</strong> Amasia; Amastris, Gaziura, and Sinope.<br />

Same type. R. Same legend and type, but in field I., mon. 18.<br />

^gis, <strong>with</strong> the head <strong>of</strong> Medusa in the centre, adv. R. Same legend. Victory<br />

stepping to r., holding palm over her shoulder <strong>with</strong> both hands ; in field L,<br />

mon. 5 ; in field r., mon. 12.<br />

Two others similar.<br />

Same type. R. 2AMI20Y. Same type.<br />

Note.—The initial aspirate was easily convertible into £, as in the instances <strong>of</strong> Axus and Saxus,<br />

<strong>of</strong> Egesta and Segesta. The form Saraisus seems to have prevailed in later times, if we may<br />

judge from the modem name Samsun, whence we might suppose also that 2AMIZ0YS 2AMIS0YN-<br />

TOS had been the ancient form, but the <strong>coins</strong> do not confirm it.<br />

Youthful head, <strong>with</strong> wing (Perseus) to r<br />

bonnets <strong>of</strong> the Dioscuri.<br />

R. AMI20Y. Comucopise between the<br />

Note,— These types on both sides are seen also on <strong>coins</strong> <strong>of</strong> Amasia and Sinope.<br />

Laureate female head, or Apollo, to r. R. AMISOY.<br />

Tripod.<br />

Augustus.<br />

©E. KAICAP ce TOS. Head <strong>of</strong> Augustus to r. R. AMI<br />

her veil in both hands, seated on a bull running to r.<br />

Hadrianus.<br />

. Female, holding<br />

AYT. KAI. TPA. AAPIANOC CGB. nn. YH. T. Head <strong>of</strong> Hadrian to r. R. AMICOY<br />

EAEY0EPAC ETOYO PXr (year 163). Pallas Nicephorus, adv., looking to I.<br />

Note.—<br />

'EKivBipat alludes to the liberation <strong>of</strong> Amisus from the tyranny <strong>of</strong> Straton, two years<br />

before the Battle <strong>of</strong> Actium, or B.C. 33 (Strabo, p. 547). This com, therefore, is <strong>of</strong> the year<br />

A.D. 130.<br />

Another similar.<br />

Same legend and type. R. AMICOV EAEV0EPAC ETOVC PIA (year 164). Capricornus<br />

to r, ; between his feet, a globule ; above, a cornucopiae.<br />

Caracalla.<br />

AY. KAI. M. AYP. ANTONINOC. Head <strong>of</strong> Caracalla to r. R. AMICOY eA6Y©ePAG.<br />

The emperor on horseback galloping to r., in raised right hand, a spear ; below,<br />

a Hon (?).<br />

AMORIUM Phrygiffi.<br />

Note.—In my Asia Minor (p. 86), I remarked that Amorium " chiefly flourished under the Byzan-<br />

tine empire, that it was the metropolitan see <strong>of</strong> the Second Galatia, and was taken and plundered by<br />

the caleph Motasem in the year 837- Under the Saracens it rose to be the chief town <strong>of</strong> the sur-<br />

rounding part <strong>of</strong> Asia Minor, and continued to be so in the eleventh century, when Idrisi wrote his<br />

geographical work." According to Strabo, Amorium was in Phrygia, and to the southward <strong>of</strong> Pes-<br />

sinus, the ruins <strong>of</strong> which are at Bala-hissSr (Bala, corruption <strong>of</strong> Palsea and Hissar, castle). Ac-<br />

cording to the Tabular Itinerary, there was a distance <strong>of</strong> forty-seven Roman miles between Pessinus<br />

and Amorium by Abrostola, but the same authority gives reason to believe that Abrostola was not in<br />

the direct road, but to the eastward <strong>of</strong> it. At Hergan Kaleh, twenty-three geographical miles from<br />

Bala-hiss^r to the S.S.W., Mr. W. J. Hamilton found ruins, which being chiefly <strong>of</strong> Byzantine<br />

times, are thus in agreement <strong>with</strong> what might be expected <strong>of</strong> the remains <strong>of</strong> Amorium (Asia<br />

Minor, i. p. 449).<br />

AMOPIANQN. Beardless head to r., <strong>with</strong> hair in knots behind and above (Apollo !) ;<br />

before it, a lyre. R. eni CGPTOPOC ANTQNIOY. Diana Ephesia, adv.<br />

From the Pembroke Collection (1246).

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