ferve to evince the truth of what has been offered by 
thofe celebrated antiquaries, on this head, and fet 
this matter in the clearefl light. • 
I. 
The firft of the medals to be confidered here (fee 
Tab.’XIII. n. I.) was given me fome years fince, by 
my worthy friend, the Reverend and learned Mr.. 
Thomas Crofts, late chaplain to the Britifli factory at 
Aleppo, and formerly of Wadham College, Oxford j 
who brought it with him to England, out of the EafI:.. 
On one fide we difcover Atergatis, Adergatis, or Der- 
ceto, taken by feveral learned (4) men, for the Dagon- 
of Scripture, nearly as we find that pagan divinity 
defcribed (5) by Diodorus Siculus, and Lucian, with a 
pigeon before her, and a fifh in her right hand. On 
the other, we perceive a galley, or fmall veflel, on the 
fea, with rowers in it ; under which there appears a 
fea-horfe, or rather a fea-monfter, of a very parti- 
cular form. Near the face of Adergatis, the two 
Phoenician letters 'p MA, prefent themfelves 
to our view. The piece is in good confervation, 
having fuffered very little from the injuries of time. 
That this filver medal muft have been anterior to 
the diffolution of the Perfian empire, we may fairly 
coiled from the reverfe j which agrees in_ every par- 
• ticular, but the fea-horfe, with the reverfe of a Daric, 
that undoubtedly preceded the abovementioned event, 
and exhibits the very fame Phoenician letters, with 
which it is adorned. But this will be rendered in- 
conteftabie by a bare inTpedtion of the draught of that 
(4) Seld. di Dils Syris., Syntagm. II, cap.- iii. Anclr. Beyer, 
ad Joli. Seld. ubi fup. p. 300. 
(5) Diod. Sic. Bihl. Hiji. \\h. II. T.ncian dj Dca Syr. apud 
Johan. Sdden. ubi I’up. Vid. Athcn. Dd^nofopk, Ub. V'lll. 
Daric,, 
