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the ark or chest exhibiting two inmates, and inscribed
Noe, a too literal graft of the early Christian element
in the locality on Paganism. The only trace of monar-
chical government seems to be at Cibyra, which with
three other towns was for some time under the sway of
regirf'i or tyrants. The preponderance of the money of
Phrygia is Roman brass, of which the reverse types
illustrate local cults, as those of Zeus, Aphrodite, &c.
Lycia.—Federalism, of which we find two distinct eras,
was the prevailing feature which here governed the char-
acter of the money ;
the favourite symbol is the famous
triquetra or three-legged emblem, occasionally varied so
as to form a diskelis or tetraskelis ; but boars, winged
lions, griffins, and bulls likewise occur. The presence
of the triskelis, emblematical of the solar revolutions,
on the group of monuments belonging to this region,
seems to set at rest the theory as to its original applica-
tion to Sicily. The reader may be usefully referred to
Sir Charles Fellow's 1
" Coins of Ancient Lycia, 11
and to
a paper in the Revue Numismatique for 1886 by M. Six.
There are coins of the fifth century B.C. ; some of those
of later date bear legends in the 1 -ycian character. The
series comes down to Roman imperial times. There are
here, as in Phrygia, very remarkable types significant of
ancient beliefs, and a particularly striking one, a coin
of Myra, engraved by Head.
Pamphyua contained within its boundaries several
noteworthy and ancient seals of coinage, of which we
may specify Aspendus, where we get theSlinger(Asphen-
detis) and triskelis types, Attalia, Antiochia, and S'ide.
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