DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 89 



Hypaepa in Lydia. — Gordian JII. Reverse, Cultus-Statue 

 of Artemis Ana'itis, a variety, of which the only other speci- 

 men known is in the Hunterian Collection at Glasgow. 

 (Macdonald, Hunter Gat. ii., PI. Iv. 20.) 



Nysa in Lydia. — Gordian III. A coin bearing the name of 

 the city-Grammateus Diodotus, one of whose family had held 

 the same high office sixty years earlier in the time of Marcus 

 Aurelius. 



Tralles in Lydia. — Coin of Tranquillina issued by 

 authority of the board of Grammateis under the presidency of 

 Philip the son of Centaurus. The reverse-type of this coin 

 shows a draped figure (Zeus ?) leading by the hand a veiled 

 bride (lo ?) out of a wattle shed. This entirely new and 

 curious subject may be one of the scenes in the " Nuptials of 

 Lo" {^lOVC FAMOI B.M. Gat. Lydia, p. cxlvi.) as repre- 

 sented at Tralles during festival times in commemora- 

 tion of the remote Argive origin of the city. It supplements 

 two other scenes from the same drama (Gat. Lyd. I.e.), and 

 may represent Zeus meeting lo in her father's cow-shed 

 ((5ov(jTa(ng), whither she had been impelled by dreams to 

 betake herself in order to fulfil her destiny. (Cf. Aesch. 

 Prom, vinct. 652.) 



Ahha'itis in Phrygia. — Second century B.C. Reverse, 

 Double-axe, the attribute of the local god Xpofxiog irpoiraTMp. 

 (Imhoof-Blumer, Festschrift fur Otto Benndorf, p. 202.) 



Ar}%orium in Phrygia. — Four coins of the time of 

 Caligula, with names of Silvanus and Justus of the Vipsania 

 gens ; of Claudius, with names of Pedo and Cato ; and of 

 Marcus Aurelius, with that of Antonius Sertor. It is notice- 

 able that all these names are Roman, and that Amorium in 

 an inscription {Bull. Gorr. Hell, xix., 555 ff.) is called 

 '^{jfifxa^og Viofxaiojv. 



Apameia in Phrygia. — Hadrian. Reverse, River-god 

 Marsyas seated in a grotto and surrounded by packing 

 chests (ictjSwroi). The popular nickname 77 jc^jSwroc was given 

 to the city of Apameia on account of its celebrity as a mart 

 in central Asia Minor, where goods arriving by many inter- 

 secting trade-routes were packed in chests for dispatch in 

 various directions. 



Gotiaeum in Phrygia. — Severus Alexander. Reverse, 

 Helios carrying on his arm a figure of Kybele enthroned. 

 The coin bears the name of P. Aelius Demetrianus Celer, 

 First Archon for the second time. 



Synaus in Phrygia. — M. Aurelius. Reverse, Naked Apollo 

 holding his bow and drawing an arrow from a quiver at his 

 shoulder ; evidently a copy of a statue of very fine style. 



Attaleia in Pa'inphylia. — Valerian. Reverse, an agonistic 

 prize-crown on a table, commemorating the celebration of the 

 Oecumenical Olympian Games. 



