Fellows, Charles: Travels and researches in Asia Minor, more particularly in the province of Lycia (London, 1852)

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LYCIA.

names of the cities, may have been derived also from the
same nation, or from the Hebrew, which appears a natural
geographical progression. In this point of view, Lycia is
to me of the highest interest, more particularly from the
extremely early works of a people whom, for the sake of
distinction, I should call the Ancient Lycians, preceding a
people who appeared to embrace the language and the my-
thology of the Greeks, and became Graeco-Lycians.

The coins found in this district, which are probably of
the cities in the valley of the Xanthus, but certainly Lycian,
bear marks of high antiquity, both in their manufacture and
devices. Of the twenty-two reverses, I observe that one
represents Pan, one of the oldest of the gods, and supposed
to be first introduced from Egypt: one has upon it a sphinx;
six have figures of lions and bulls, which may refer to Eu-
ropa; four represent Pegasus; one, a horse (which may re-
late to the exploits of Bellerophon), and one a naked man:
the remaining eight have each the skin of a lion's head.
Other coins which I have found in the country, representing
wild boars, may probably be also of this date. In these coins
we find no trace of Apollo, Diana, Jupiter, Hercules, or
Ceres, so universally honoured in this country at a later
period, about the fifth century b. c, nor any trace of a head
indicating the coins of the Roman ages. This I think is
strong evidence of the antiquity of the early inhabitants,
derived from their coins; the bas-reliefs afford a similar
evidence.

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