90 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BEITISH MUSEUM. 



Laodiceia Combusta in Lycaonia. — Titus and Domitian. 

 Reverse, Kybele enthroned and KAAYAIOAAOAIKEWN 

 showing that, like its neighbour leonium, it had added the 

 name of Claudius to its own, probablj^ in A.D. 41. The 

 only other known coins of this city are in the Bibliotheque 

 Nationale, Paris. 



Gilicia. — Two small silver coins struck under one of the 

 later Persian Satraps, one of them showing the great king 

 and the other a seated figure of Baaltars and a standing 

 divinity holding a sceptre and a bird. 



Claudiopolis (Mut) in Gilicia. — Trajan, a dated coin, which 

 fixes the era of the city to the reign of Claudius, between 

 the years 43 and 54 A.D. 



Elaeusa-Sehaste in Gilicia. — Coin struck about the time 

 when Archelaus of Cappadocia added the name of Sebaste to 

 that of Elaeusa in honour of Augustus, circ. 20 B.C. 



Seleucia in Gilicia. — Gordian. Two coins, one with 

 Aphrodite standing and holding a mirror, and with tvro 

 Erotes carrying torches at her feet ; the other with Athena 

 hurling a thunderbolt at a prostrate serpent-footed giant. 



Gy2)rus. — A highly interesting and important collection of 

 ancient Cyprian coins acquired by Sir Kobt. Hamilton Lang 

 during his residence in. the island many years ago. It 

 includes a number of silver staters of the early kings of the 

 Cyprian towns Idalium, Citium, Paphos, Salamis, &c., rang- 

 ing in date from about 500 B.C. almost down to the time of 

 Alexander the Great. 



Gyprus. — Stasioecus, king of Marium. A rare silver stater 

 of the early part of the fourth century B.C. Obverse, Head of 

 Apollo Hylates and a Cypriote inscription ; Reverse, the 

 goddess Astarte riding on a bull. The only other specimen 

 of this rare coin is in the Imhoof Cabinet now at Berlin. 



Ancyra in Galatia. — Caracalla. Two coins, one with 

 infant Dionysos suckled by a pantheress beneath a tree; 

 before the animal stands a youthful satyr, caressing her ; the 

 other with the personified genius of the Games ICOTTV0IA, 

 holding the agonistic crown. 



Pessinus in Galatia. — Caracalla. Reverse, Daedalus 

 teaching his son Icarus how to fly. 



Ar Taenia. — A bronze coin of a king wearing a tiara. 

 Reverse, club and inscription not at present deciphered. 



Hieropolis (JBambyce) in Gyrrhestica. — ^An extremely rare 

 and very interesting silver stater which the late M. Wad- 

 dington (Rev. Num. 1861, p. 9), attributed to Abd-Hadad, 

 High Priest of the Syrian goddess Atergatis, and dynast 

 of Bambyce, the chief seat of her worship in the time of 



