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the Sarmatian Greeks. May we not infer, that c ** a p. 
these games in honour of Achilles were cele- v — y. — 
bratecl on the AXIAAEftI APOMOZ, a tongue of 
land not very far from Olbia P 
The different medals of Olbiopolis, repre- Medals. 
sen tin (r the head of Ceres ; that ot a bull ; an 
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eagle standing on a dolphin ; a bow and quiver ; 
or an ear of corn ; have for their legend the 
word OARIonOAITEftN. They are all of them 
exceedingly rare. We obtained one of bronze, in 
high preservation, at Nicholaef, differing from 
any we have yet seen described ’. In front it 
has a bearded head of Pan, with horns; and 
for reverse, a bow and quiver, with an axe, the 
letters OABIO, and the monogram H". Eclchel 
describes a medal of the same city less per- 
fectly preserved, the horns of the figure being 
unnoticed: and the same legend is not found 
in his valuable work * 5 . Scymnus Chius ascer- 
tains with great precision the situation of the 
city \ “ At the confluence," says he, “ of the 
two rivers, Hypanis and Borysthenes, is a city, 
formerly called Olbia, and since Borysthenes, by 
the Greeks. The Milesians built it, during the 
(l) See the Vignette to this Chapter. 
(S) DoctrinaNum. Vet. Par. I. vol. II. Vindob. 1794. 
(3) Scymnus Chius, vol. II. p. 46. Oxon. 1703. 
