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INTRODUCTION.
century B.c. Lycia thus formed a province of the Persian Empire,
and furnished a contingent of 50 ships (under Kubernis, son of
Kossikas) to the fleet of Xerxes.
The Athenian Empire was extended to Lycia just before the
battle of the Eurymedon, and the Lycians paid
Atheniai^Empke. tribute to Athens as Λύκιοι καί awpreAef?].* Pro-
bably at the time of the revolt of Samos, the
Lycians broke loose from the Athenian Empire, but the influence
of Athens on their coinage continued to be felt. M. J. P. Six
suggests that about the time of the Samian revolt there was a
general return to the earlier (“ Lydian ”) monetary standard (which
had been superseded by the Attic), while the Samian type of the
lion’s scalp became prevalent. This, so far as relates to the type,
may be true of a part of Lycia; but there are coins of Attic type
(head of Athena), and of the low standard which Six calls Attic,
which cannot be earlier than 440 b.c. (e.g. nos. 106, 111, Pl. vi. 7,12).
Entzifferung der lyk. Spraclidenkm., 1874-78. Deecke, in Bezzen'berger’s Bei-
trage, 1887. M. Schmidt u. W. Pertsch, Neue lykische Studien u. das Decret des
Pixodaros, Jena, 1869. J. Imbert, various articles in the Babylonian and Oriental
Record ; Les Termes de Parente dans les Inscriptions lyciennes (Mem. de la
Societe de Linguistique de Paris, viii.), Paris, 1894; and L’Epigramme grecgue
de la Stele de Xanthe (Rev. des Etudes grecques, vii., p. 267), Paris, 1894.
W. Arkwright in the Babylonian and Oriental Record, iv.,p. 176 ; v., p. 49, p. 185.
C. Pauli, Eine vorgriechische Inschrift von Lemnos, 1886. Also the general
summary in Treuber, Gesek, d. Lylcier, pp. 13-46. The topographical and
archaeological works most frequently referred to in the following pages are :
(1) Sir Charles Fellows, An Account of Discoveries in Lycia, 1840. (2) T. A. B.
Spratt and E. Forbes, Travels in Lycia, Hilyas and the Cibyratis, 1847.
(3) Reisen in sud-westlichen Kleinasien: vol. i., Reisen in Lylcien u. Karien,
by 0. Benndorf and G. Niemann, 1884; and vol. ii., Reisen in Lykien Milyas
u. Kibyratis, by E. Petersen and F. von Luschan, 1889.
* This phrase does not imply the existence of a Lycian league; see Treuber,
p. 98, note 6. Telmessus and Phaselis paid tribute on their own account. At the
same time the coinage points to a monetary union of some kind, which almost
certainly accompanied a political union.
INTRODUCTION.
century B.c. Lycia thus formed a province of the Persian Empire,
and furnished a contingent of 50 ships (under Kubernis, son of
Kossikas) to the fleet of Xerxes.
The Athenian Empire was extended to Lycia just before the
battle of the Eurymedon, and the Lycians paid
Atheniai^Empke. tribute to Athens as Λύκιοι καί awpreAef?].* Pro-
bably at the time of the revolt of Samos, the
Lycians broke loose from the Athenian Empire, but the influence
of Athens on their coinage continued to be felt. M. J. P. Six
suggests that about the time of the Samian revolt there was a
general return to the earlier (“ Lydian ”) monetary standard (which
had been superseded by the Attic), while the Samian type of the
lion’s scalp became prevalent. This, so far as relates to the type,
may be true of a part of Lycia; but there are coins of Attic type
(head of Athena), and of the low standard which Six calls Attic,
which cannot be earlier than 440 b.c. (e.g. nos. 106, 111, Pl. vi. 7,12).
Entzifferung der lyk. Spraclidenkm., 1874-78. Deecke, in Bezzen'berger’s Bei-
trage, 1887. M. Schmidt u. W. Pertsch, Neue lykische Studien u. das Decret des
Pixodaros, Jena, 1869. J. Imbert, various articles in the Babylonian and Oriental
Record ; Les Termes de Parente dans les Inscriptions lyciennes (Mem. de la
Societe de Linguistique de Paris, viii.), Paris, 1894; and L’Epigramme grecgue
de la Stele de Xanthe (Rev. des Etudes grecques, vii., p. 267), Paris, 1894.
W. Arkwright in the Babylonian and Oriental Record, iv.,p. 176 ; v., p. 49, p. 185.
C. Pauli, Eine vorgriechische Inschrift von Lemnos, 1886. Also the general
summary in Treuber, Gesek, d. Lylcier, pp. 13-46. The topographical and
archaeological works most frequently referred to in the following pages are :
(1) Sir Charles Fellows, An Account of Discoveries in Lycia, 1840. (2) T. A. B.
Spratt and E. Forbes, Travels in Lycia, Hilyas and the Cibyratis, 1847.
(3) Reisen in sud-westlichen Kleinasien: vol. i., Reisen in Lylcien u. Karien,
by 0. Benndorf and G. Niemann, 1884; and vol. ii., Reisen in Lykien Milyas
u. Kibyratis, by E. Petersen and F. von Luschan, 1889.
* This phrase does not imply the existence of a Lycian league; see Treuber,
p. 98, note 6. Telmessus and Phaselis paid tribute on their own account. At the
same time the coinage points to a monetary union of some kind, which almost
certainly accompanied a political union.