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INTEODUCTION.
to στρογγυλά, referred to the shape of the crest on which the city
stood.* The only coins which can with certainty be attributed
to Pinara are silver of the league (no. 2, Pl. xvii. 6) and small
bronze pieces, probably of a slightly earlier date, with a bu-
craniumf on the reverse (nos. 1-4, Pl. xvii. 5).
Sidyma was situated at Dodurgar-Assari, in the heart of the
Cragus proper. Its remains show that it only
SIDYMA. . .
became important under the Empire.J No coins
of Sidyma have been published, but the Bibliotheque Nationale
possesses a kitliarephoros (reading ΛΥΚΙίΙΝ ΣΙ) struck somewhat
early in the period of the league.
Tlos stood above the present Oliver, on the east bank of the
Xanthus. It was important from the earliest
TLOS
times,§ and under the Empire had the title of
Metropolis. || The coins struck during the period of the league
all have types relating to Apollo or Artemis some of them bear
the initials of Tlos and Cragus in common.**
* Steph. Byz., s.v. Άρτυμνησ-οί. He here makes ΤΙινάρα a fem. sing., but else-
where (s.v. Tlivapa) he gives the name as a neuter plural.
t The bucranium is used in a peculiar way as the chief akroterion of a tomb
at Pinara (Reisen, i., pp. 51 ff.), but there it probably has its usual funerary
significance.
1 Reisen, i., pp. 58 if. On p. 157 it is suggested that Sidyma was a creation of
Claudius, but this is disproved by the kitliarephoros mentioned in the text (unless
ΣΙ stands for some other name).
§ Por early coins probably struck here, see pp. xliv, 31.
|| Be Bas-Waddington, 1266.
^1 For varieties of these, and of Imperial coins not represented in the Museum
Collection, see Imhoof-Blumer, Monn. Gr., p. 329, nos. 23, 25; Babeion, Mel.
Num., ii., p. 305, no. 20; Mionnet, Supp., vii., p. 23, nos. 91, 92; Pinder and
Friedl., 'Beitr., p. 120; Arch. Zeit., 1849, p. 29, no. 7; Waddington, As. Min.,
p. 87 (Kakasbosp see J. H. S., 1895, p. 130).
** See no. 27 of Cragus, and a small silver coin (half-kitharephoros) at Paris
with ΤΛ KP
INTEODUCTION.
to στρογγυλά, referred to the shape of the crest on which the city
stood.* The only coins which can with certainty be attributed
to Pinara are silver of the league (no. 2, Pl. xvii. 6) and small
bronze pieces, probably of a slightly earlier date, with a bu-
craniumf on the reverse (nos. 1-4, Pl. xvii. 5).
Sidyma was situated at Dodurgar-Assari, in the heart of the
Cragus proper. Its remains show that it only
SIDYMA. . .
became important under the Empire.J No coins
of Sidyma have been published, but the Bibliotheque Nationale
possesses a kitliarephoros (reading ΛΥΚΙίΙΝ ΣΙ) struck somewhat
early in the period of the league.
Tlos stood above the present Oliver, on the east bank of the
Xanthus. It was important from the earliest
TLOS
times,§ and under the Empire had the title of
Metropolis. || The coins struck during the period of the league
all have types relating to Apollo or Artemis some of them bear
the initials of Tlos and Cragus in common.**
* Steph. Byz., s.v. Άρτυμνησ-οί. He here makes ΤΙινάρα a fem. sing., but else-
where (s.v. Tlivapa) he gives the name as a neuter plural.
t The bucranium is used in a peculiar way as the chief akroterion of a tomb
at Pinara (Reisen, i., pp. 51 ff.), but there it probably has its usual funerary
significance.
1 Reisen, i., pp. 58 if. On p. 157 it is suggested that Sidyma was a creation of
Claudius, but this is disproved by the kitliarephoros mentioned in the text (unless
ΣΙ stands for some other name).
§ Por early coins probably struck here, see pp. xliv, 31.
|| Be Bas-Waddington, 1266.
^1 For varieties of these, and of Imperial coins not represented in the Museum
Collection, see Imhoof-Blumer, Monn. Gr., p. 329, nos. 23, 25; Babeion, Mel.
Num., ii., p. 305, no. 20; Mionnet, Supp., vii., p. 23, nos. 91, 92; Pinder and
Friedl., 'Beitr., p. 120; Arch. Zeit., 1849, p. 29, no. 7; Waddington, As. Min.,
p. 87 (Kakasbosp see J. H. S., 1895, p. 130).
** See no. 27 of Cragus, and a small silver coin (half-kitharephoros) at Paris
with ΤΛ KP