88 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Gordus Julia m Ujdia.—Gommodns and Macrinus, two 

 rare bronze coins. Reverses, Emperor on horseback spearing 

 prostrate foe, and the god Men standing. 



Maeonia in Lydia.— Lucius Verus A rare coin with the 

 magistrate's name €ni KY€INTOY B. APX. A. 



Masta^ura in Lydia. — Otacilia. Reverse, Triple statue of 

 Hekate Triformis holding in her six hands various symbolical 

 objects; at her feet are a hound and a blazing altar. 



Philadelphia in Lydia. — Severus Alexander. Reverse, 

 Temple of Helios and the name of a magistrate, Tiberius 

 Julius Julianus, the first Archon. 



Saitta in Lydia. — Gordian III. Reverse, the god Men 

 standing between two recumbent River-gods, Hyllos and 

 Hermos ; important as indicating the position of Saitta above 

 the confluence of those rivers. The coin bears the name of 

 the first Archon, Aelius Attalianus, who styles himself vIoq 

 i-mnKov 'Aaiapxov " Son of an Asiarch of equestrian rank." 



Thyatira in Lydia. — Sept. Severus. Reverse, River-god 

 Lykos recumbent before a tree, and extending his hand 

 towards a humped bull. 



Tomaris in Lydia. — Sept. Severus. A rare bronze coin, 

 on the reverse of which is a recumbent figure of a River-god, 

 accompanied by his name, KICCOC, a piece of considerable 

 topographical interest as showing that Tomaris, the site of 

 which is still uncertain, stood on the river Cissus, which is 

 probably an affluent of the modern Kum-chai. 



Tralles in Lydia. — Eleven coins of the Cistophoric class, 

 ranging in date from the era of the Province of Asia, B.C. 133 

 down to B.C. 48, all rare and nearly all unpublished varieties. 



Tripolis in Lydia. — Eight bronze coins of Roman Imperial 

 times, among which is one in beautiful condition, obverse, Head 

 of Helios ; reverse, the emperor Trajan crowning a trophy of 

 arms. 



Acmonia in Phrygia. — Plautilla. Reverse, young goat- 

 legged Pan seated on a rock with his nebris hanging over his 

 knee. He is in the attitude of " outlook," to airocTKOTnvHv. 



Amorium in Phrygia. — Geta. Reverse, winged Nemesis 

 in her usual attitude of plucking her chiton at her neck, and 

 with her symbol, the wheel, beside her. 



Ancyra in Phrygia.— Antomnus Pius. Reverse, Naked 

 Zeus resting on spear and holding an anchor. This type 

 illustrates a passage of Pausanias (I.. 4), in which he says 

 that the anchor discovered by the Phrygian king Midas, the 

 founder of Ancyra in Galatia, was still preserved in his own 



