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No.
1502
PI. 57
1503
PL 57
1504
PI. 57
Wt.
"7
7.58
J35-6
8.79
Metal
Size.
A2I
JR.2I
JR.21
SICILY
DESCRIPTION
tyL. PETPEINHN. Eagle, with spread wings, on thunderbolt, fac-
ing, head turned to r. : plain border.
Segesta.
(SESTRl)
(O. Noury Bey, 1904.)
" A non-Hellenic town in the district of Sicily inhabited by the Elymi.
Tradition had it that it was founded by Segestos, a son of a Trojan
maiden by the River-god Krimissos in the form of a dog . The Seges-
tans were engaged from the earliest times in continual hostilities with
the Selinuntines, tuhich gave occasion for the intervention of Athens in
Sicilian affairs and later to the invasion of the Carthaginians in B. C-
409." (Hist. Num., p. 164.)
Circ. B. C. 480-461.
WELE^IAII B. Head of nymph Segesta to r., wearing circular
earring, neck-band and pearl necklace ;
hair wavy and turned up
behind under diadem over which ends fall : within round incuse
without border.
B/,. Dog (river Krimissos) to r. his nose to the ground ; double exer-
gual line : border of dots. — Didrachm.
Cf. B. M. Cat., p. 130, Q« 2.
Cf. Jameson Cat., PI. xxxiv, 696.
(W. Webster.)
3IIATJ3D3I. Head of Segesta, to 1., wearing earring and neck-
lace ; hair turned up behind under diadem over which ends fall :
concave field.
B/,. Dog to 1 , wearing collar; above, corn-grain : border of dots.
.
Didrachm. (Frankfort sale, 1890.)
B. M. Cat., p. 151, n° to.
Babelon, PI. lxxix, 17.
Head of Segesta to r., wearing necklace ; hair wavy and turned up
behind under diadem over which ends fall : concave field.
B/.. IATJ73J (sic). Dog to r., his nose to the ground ;
B: border of dots. — Didrachm.
— 315
Cf. Babelon, PI. lxxix, 13.
—
beneath body
(Castellani, 1903.)