DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS.* 89 



century B.C., bearing the inscription EDIKPATHS SENOKPA- 

 TOTS lEPEYS AHMOY — important as specifying for the 

 first time the title of the chief magistrate of the city, a title 

 hitherto unrecorded either on coins or lapidary inscriptions. 



Stratonicea in Caria. — A very rare, if not unique, 

 silver drachm of the 2nd century, B.C. ; obverse, Head of 

 Zeus ; reverse, Hekate standing to the front and holding a 

 patera and a torch. At her side is an altar. 



Doryleurti in Phrygia.—A coin of Titus. On the reverse 

 is a seated Zeus, and the name of the well-known poet 

 Silius Italicus, who was Pro-Consul of the Roman Province 

 of Asia, circ, A.D. 77. 



Hieropolis in Phrygia. — A coin of Elagabalus ; reverse, 

 Zeus hurling a thunderbolt, with an eagle and an aegis on his 

 extended arm, and another eagle at his feet. This is a very 

 curious type which occurs at no other city. 



Lycia. — Ten silver and seven bronze coins belonging to the 

 peculiar series struck in Lycia during the 5th century B.C., 

 and bearing inscriptions in the Lycian language and 

 character, at present imperfectly understood. Whether these 

 inscriptions record the names of ancient Lycian cities, or 

 those of their rulers, is still a doubtful point. The following 

 are the most interesting varieties : — Three silver staters, 

 inscribed SIinSTAxA (Spintaza), circ. B.C. 460, at the latest; 

 obverse, Archaic female head ; reverse, Tetraskelis, which, like 

 the Triskelis or Triquetra, is a Lycian solar symbol. — Four 

 silver staters, ii^gcribed the name with Teththiveibi, with 

 types resembling the coins of Spintaza. — A silver coin, with 

 the legend TPB[ . . . ]EME (Trebbenimi) ; obverse. Lion's 

 scalp, with a triskelis on the forehead ; reverse, Triskelis. 

 This coin seems to belong to the latter part of the 5th 

 century. — A bronze coin reading 'M/MI (Peri[kli]) ; obverse. 

 Fore-part of stag ; reverse, TriskeUs. A dynast of the name 

 of Perikles is known from Lycian inscriptions. He seems to 

 have been a king of the whole of Lycia, and to have fallen 

 in the revolt against Artaxerxes, B.C. 362. 



Aspendus in Pamphylia. — An unpublished coin of Julia 

 Domna, with the reverse inscription OEMIAOC TS0, refer- 

 ring to the games celebrated in various Pamphylian and 

 Cilician towns under the name of Qifxideg (Head, Hist. Num., 

 p. 583). In these contests the prizes consisted, not, as else- 

 where, of wreaths, tripods, &c., but of sums of money. The 

 numerals TSO (' 369 ') prove that the date from which the 

 era of Aspendus is reckoned fell between the years B.C. 

 176 and 152 ; the occasion of which is not known. 



Perga and Side in Pamphylia. — An alliance coin of 

 0.107. G 3 Gordian 



