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from the dates which they commemorate, but chap. 
also in the allusion made by some of them to . / -> 
the baths of Tiberias, the principal cause of the 
city's celebrity. They are chiefly of the time of 
Trajan or of Adrian. Upon some, the Syrian 
goddess Astarte is represented standing upon 
the prow of a vessel, with the head of Osiris 
in her right hand, and a spear in her left*- 
Others represent Jupiter sitting in his temple^. 
There are also other medals of the city, with 
the figure of Hygeia, holding a serpent, and sit- 
ting on a mountain ; from whose base issue 
two fountains, intended for the hot springs of 
Emmaus '°. 
Among the pebbles of the shore were pieces ^J'T^'^f 
of a porous rock, resembling the substance Gennesa. 
called Toadstone in England: its cavities were 
filled with zeolite. Native gold was found here 
Tlie legend given by Harduin is, TIBEPIEfXN • Eni • KAATAIOT • ET • ATI' 
Those commemorated by Vallinnt have KAATAIO TIBEPIEnN, with dif- 
ferent dates. ITie epocha of the city commences with the year of Rome 
770 ; therefore the All, or 81, noticed by Harduin^ answers to the year 
of Rome 850, being the first year of Trajan's reign. It was usual to 
compliment the Emperors by striking medals during the first year of their 
reign. Reland notices a remarkable medal of Tiberias {torn. II. /;. 1042. 
Pateest. Illusl.) which had on one side the legend TIBEPIAC within a 
laurel wreath, and upon the other the words HPflAOT TETPAPXOT L. AA. 
with a palm branch. 
(8) Vaillant, p. 374. Nuvi. Imperat. Paris, 1698. 
(9) Ibid. 
(10) Vid. Reland. Patast. lUust. torn. II. p. 1042. 
