TO BUKOREST. 235 
upon the other side, the head of Colijs, with the ghap. 
words BAZIAEYZKOTYZ. > .' ^ 
The third, was a bronze medal oFMarcia- ■'^"'•"ano- 
polis. 
NOPOLis, struck under u4lexander Severus ; 
the head of that Emperor and his wife 
being represented in front, with the legend 
MAPAVPCEVH.AAEZANAPOV; and upon 
the obverse side, a Figure of Justice holding 
the scales, with a cornucopicv, and this legend, 
VnriOVA<l>HCTOYMAPKIANOnOAITIlN, 
the beginning of which we may read, 
VnATOY, TAIOY, lOYAIOY. Marciana, from 
whom this city received its name*, was the 
sister of Trajan. A similar medal, struck 
under Julia Domna, is noticed in the 
valuable work of Hardidn\ with this legend, 
MAPKIANOnOAeiTUN Yn-AYPAMIANOY. 
The city thus called Marctanopolis was in 
M(EsrA Inferior; and it was the capital of the 
country. UAnville has placed it near the con- 
fluence of two small rivers, flowing towards the 
(4) " A sorore Trajani principis ita cognominatum." Vide Am- 
mian. Marcellinum, lib. xxvii. cap. 9> 
(5) Nuimn. Antiq. Popul. et Urb. illust. Joann. Harduin. p. h19. 
Parisiis, 1 684. 
