DEPAKTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. &1 



Alexander the Great. On the obverse is the head of the 

 goddess facing, wearing a lofty turreted tiara and necklace, 

 and accompanied by her name in Aramaic characters. The 

 reverse represents the High Priest Abd-Hadad, accompanied 

 by his name, clothed in a long robe and wearing a conical 

 head-dress or mitre, standing in a temple and sacrificing 

 before an altar or incense-burner. 



Aradus in Phoenicia. — Thirteen silver coins, including 

 some early half-staters. Obverse, Head of Melkarth ; 

 Reverse, galley, and drachms 170 127 B.C. with Ephesian 

 types, and some fine specimens of dated tetradrachms, 

 136-127 B.C., bearing the head of the Tyche of Aradus. 



Berytus in Phoenicia. — ^Imperial coins of Commodus and 

 Caracalla. Reverse, Neptune in a sea-chariot, and of Elaga- 

 balus ; Obverse, Temple with statue of Faunus and figures of 

 Aeneas and Anchises. 



Sidon in Phoenicia. — Five octadrachms from a hoard 

 recently discovered at Saida (Sidon). They are of two types 

 (a and b), the earliest of which has, on the obverse, a castel- 

 lated city-wall, at the foot of which rides a Phoenician war- 

 galley, in the foreground beneath which are two rampant 

 lions. On the reverse is the king of Sidon in a car driven by 

 a charioteer, and drawn by galloping horses over a prostrate 

 goat or ibex (incuse). The coins of this type are assigned to 

 the king of Sidon, who, in 395 B.C., took part in the battle of 

 Cnidus. (Diod. Sic. xiv.. 79.) One of them bears the initial 

 letters of his name Baal-Melek in the Phoenician character. 

 The other type (6) has on the obverse a war-galley at sea, 

 with .the Phoenician letter B above it, and on the reverse the 

 king and charioteer in a car drawn by walking horses and 

 followed by an attendant on foot carrying a sceptre. One 

 of these latter coins is re-struck over a specimen of type a, 

 and is to be therefore attributed to a successor of Baal- 

 Melek, who must have reigned between B.C. 395 and 374, 

 when Strato I. became king of Sidon. 



Sidon in Phoenicia. — Elagabalus. Reverse, Sacred car of 

 Astarte. 



Tripolis in Phoenicia. — A rare tetradrachm, 154-3 B.C., 

 dated according to the era of the city, having on the obverse 

 the heads of the Dioscuri, and on the reverse, Tyche. 



Tyre in Phoenicia. — A, fine series of dated tetradrachms, 

 &c. B.C. 126-57. Obverse, Head of Herakles ; Reverse, Eagle 

 on rudder. 



Gaza in Judoia. — An archaic drachm. Obverse, Young 

 male head ; Reverse, Incuse square within which is a lion with 

 a ram's head beneath it. Of this rare coin the only other 

 specimen known is in the Bibliotheque at Paris. (Babelon, 

 Perses Achemenides, PI. viii., 16.) 



