DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 85 



Cil'icla. — Four silver staters of the Persian Satraps of 

 'Cilicia, Datames, B.C. 378-372, and Mazaeus, B.C. 362-328. 



Cappadocia. — Twenty-three drachms of Ariarathes IV., 

 B.C. 220-163, and later Cappadocian kings, bearing various 

 rare dates and monograms. 



Cappadocia. — A drachm of Ariarathes IX., B.C. 100-87. 

 ■Struck in the ninth year of his reign. 



Arabia. — Thirteen silver Himyarite coins from the famous 

 hoard discovered at San'a in 1877 (B. V. Head, Num. Chron. 

 1878, pp. 273-284, and 1880, pp. 303-310). No coins of this 

 ■class were known before the San'a find, and none have since 

 come to light. These coins together form a highly interesting- 

 series of the money of the Himyarite kings of Southern 

 Arabia (Yemen) during the first century B.C. The heads 

 represented on the earlier specimens are probably copied from 

 those on the coins of the contemporary Nabathaean kings of 

 Northern Arabia, and those on the later varieties from the 

 Tloman coins of Augustus.^ The reverse type, owl on 

 amphora, is borrowed from the latest Athenian coinage in 

 silver, which came to an end in B.C. 88. All these coins bear 

 Himyarite monograms, apparently signatures of mint ofiicials 

 responsible for the exact weight and purity of the silver. 

 In addition, the specimens which seem to be the earliest in 

 date bear also an inscription in an unknown character which 

 is certainly not Himyaritic, and of which, up to the present 

 time, no satisfactory explanation has been suggested. (See 

 Revue Numismatique, 1893, pp. 176-189). 



Arabia, — A small silver coin of the Himyarite dynasty of 

 '.Southern Arabia reading, in the native character, Amdan 

 . Jehun Yanaf Raidan. 



(c.) Coins of Imperial Times. Augustus to Gallienus 

 and Salonina. 



Ephesus in Ionia. — Bronze of Severus Alexander ; reverse, 

 E<t>ECinN MONHN HPnTON ACIAC, city goddess seated. 

 Testing on long torch and holding out two shorter torches to 

 the cultus-statue of the Ephesian Artemis. A new type and 

 .a fine specimen. 



Mylasa in Carta. — Bronze of Caracalla ; reverse Zeus 

 standing, holding patera and sceptre, with a stag at his feet, 

 .^doubtless the local Zeus of one of the villages belonging to 

 the territory of Mylasa. 



Tabae in Caria. — Bronze of the time of Domitian ; obverse, 

 bust of the city goddess of Tabae, with polos oj kalathos 

 upon her head; reverse, A\ A OP [O^iov] l€ [pwvog~\, altar 

 of the Dioskuri. 



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