80 FROM THE CIRCASSIAN FRONTIER, 
chap, time of Spartocus I. to Asander, who was invested 
' y — ■/ with the regal authority by Augustus, the go- 
vernment of the Bosporus was partly republican ; 
for Pcerisades is styled Archon of the Bosporus, 
and the chief magistrate is termed Hegbmon by 
Strabo, and Ethnarchus by Lucian. 
The deities Anerges and Astara are Syro- 
Chaldaic. Anerges is probably the same as 
the deity Nergel, or Nergal, mentioned in 
Scripture', the Moloch of the Ammonites, the 
Remphah of the Egyptians, and Hyperion of the 
Greeks. Astara is the Chaldaic and Phoenician 
Astaroth, the Alilat of the Arabs, the Isis of 
the Egyptians, the Syrian deity mentioned by 
Lucian, and the Alergatis, Aslartb, and Selbnb of 
the Greeks. 
It was, then, to the two great luminaries of 
heaven that Comosarya dedicated her monument, 
probably to implore them to grant her fruitful- 
ness in marriage 4 . 
Fortress of We passed the new fortress of Taman, in our 
Taman • 
(lj 2 Kings, xvii. 30. 
(2) It is observable that IXTPfll is in the singular number, which 
is an error in the engraver of the marble : aud for 0ATEHN, Koehler 
proposes ©ATEPtlN. 
