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bunch of grapes (14) in his right hand, as Jupiter ap- 
pears on the medal before me, attended by the in- 
fcription TAPCOT METPOnOAEnC, &c. Tarsi 
metropoleos, &c. andtheother is adorned with the 
fame infcription, and a lion tearing a (15) bull, the 
very fymbol that occurs on three of Lord Pem- 
broke’s (16) coins, fo perfectly fimilar to that which 
is the objed of my attention here. 
In farther evidion of the point I am contending 
for, I muft beg leave to remark, that two pieces 
of Tarfus with Jupiter Tarfenfis on the reverfe, in 
the very fame attitude, and, in other refpeds, refem- 
bling the figure of the fame deity on the medal now 
confidered, have been lately (17) published by M. 
Pellerin. 
From the coin of Gordian (18) adorned with 
Bacchus on the reverfe, holding a bunch of grapes 
in his right hand, we may infer, not only that Bac- 
chus was worlhiped at Tarfus, but likewife that 
wine was made in the diftrid appertaining to that 
city. This will eafily and naturally account for the 
grapes held by Jupiter, or Baal, in his right hand, 
on the piece lam attempting toilluftratehere. 
It muft be farther remarked, that fuch medals as 
this, as well as many others, are dug up in. the. 
neighbourhood (19) of Kepfe, the Seleucia Pieria of 
theantients, which flood at no very great diftance from 
(74) Joan. Vaill. ubi (up. p. 157. 
(15) Id. Ibid. 
(ib; Numifm. Antiqu. (Ac. a Thom. Pembr. et Mont. Gomcr. 
Com. Collett, p. 2- I • 87* 
(17) Peller. ubi fup. Tom. Sec. Pl.LXXIV. p. 175 1 77 * 
A Paris, 1763. 
(18) Joan. Vaill. ubi fup. p. 157. 
(10) Pococlce’s Defcript. of the Eq/ 1 , Vol. II. p. 1S6. 
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