no 
FROM THE CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS, 
chap, wretchedness and insignificance. Not long ago, 
j it was a place of considerable consequence. 
The Russians, according to the statement made 
by several of its inhabitants, destroyed five 
thousand houses. Even in its ruins, the regal 
seat of the Bosporian Kings, once the residence 
of Mithradates, will ever be considered an inter- 
esting, if not an important, place for the re- 
searches of the historian. Our first inquiry 
among the few Greeks settled here was for 
medals : several were brought, but for the most 
part much injured, and scarcely worth notice. 
We obtained one, however, in bronze, of a 
different description: after bestowing a little 
care in removing the hard crust upon it, the 
word P ANTI KAP AIT® N, with every letter per- 
fect, might be plainly discerned '. It was said 
to have been found in Ycnihale. In front appears 
munitissiiua ; quam fortassi Phanagoriam appellatam esse, propinquis- 
sitnam Asia! civitatem j A Milesiis quondam conditam fuisse, et 
emporium in cA nobile extitisse Straboni placet. Ilia!! arces A Genu- 
eusibus quondam excitatse et munitae fuisse videntur, et non ignobile 
presidium ibi illi semper habuAre. Cercum arx diruta est ; nam 
Turcarum Imperator in universe TauricA nullum arcern aliam preter 
Perecopiaiu ipsam presidio firmare Tartaro seu Cbano permittit. 
Tumanum areem, qua' in extremitate TauricA sita est, etPetigorensiuin 
amplissimir proviucia;, quam Colcbidem Ptolemieus et Strabo vocitant, 
jam coutigua existit, seniacus seu pra-fectus ei imposito presidio firmo 
perpetuo earn munivit.” Descript. Tartar. L. Bat. 1630./). 276. 
( I ) Eclhcl (vol. 1 1. p. 3) notices the same remarkable legend, as found 
on the medals of Panlicapaurn. 
