TO THE CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS. 
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Taman, deserves particular notice ; as it seems CI *£ R 
to confirm what has been said respecting the * — ' 
situation of Phanagoria, It is a small silver 
medal of that city, of great antiquity, and per- 
haps unique ; there being nothing like it in the 
Collection at Paris, nor in any other celebrated 
cabinet of Europe. In front, it exhibits the 
head of a young man, with the kind of cap 
described in a preceding page of this volume 2 3 * : 
upon the reverse appears a bull, butting, with 
a grain of corn in the space below the line, upon 
which the animal stands, and above it are tire 
letters <1>aNA. When we consider the destruc- 
tion of antient works, so long carried on in 
Taman and in its neighbourhood, we may rea- 
sonably wonder that any thing should now 
remain to illustrate its former history. So 
long ago as the beginning of the last century, 
it was observed by Motraye that the remains of 
antiquity were daily diminishing 5 . Between 
(2) See Note 1. p. 30. 
(3) “ We took up our lodging that night at Taman, and set out 
the 25th, early in the morning ; and I observed nothing remarkable 
between this town and Temrook, but some yet considerable ruins, 
which were likely to become less so every day, by their continued diminu- 
Uon, occasioned by the inhabitants of these two places carrying off, 
from time to time, part of them, to build magazines, or lay the 
foundations for some houses. By their situation, they seemed ot 
nie to have been those of the Phanugoria of the Antients, if it was 
not at Tainan ; but 1 could not find either inscriptions or basso- 
relievos to giv e me any further insight into it. Hard by the highway, 
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