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SICILY.
Circ. b.c. 415-400.
PIAKINfON Head of young river-
god horned, and laureate. Between
the letters are the marks of value
Dog seizing a fawn by the throat
2E -7 Hemilitron, wt. 70 grs.
(Imhoof-Blumer, Mon. Gr., p. 26.)
In style the head on this coin bears a striking resemblance to the
laureate head on the tetradrachms of Catana (B. M. Cal Sic., p. 45, no. 25).
Piacus may have been situated somewhere in the vicinity of that town.
The river symbolized by the dog seizing a fawn may be one of the
torrents which descend at times from Aetna, perhaps the Acis.
Segesta, west of Panormus, was a non-Hellenic town in the district of
Sicily inhabited by the Elymi. It stood on the summit of an isolated
hill, skirted by a deep ravine, through which flows a torrent which
empties itself into the river Crimisus. According to a local tradition
the city owed its foundation to Egestos, the son of a Trojan maiden
Segesta by the river-god Crimisus, who met her in the form of a dog
(Serv. ad Aen., i. 550, v. 30).
From the earliest times the Segestans were engaged in continual
hostilities with the Selinuntines, doubtless concerning the boundaries of
their respective territories. These disputes gave occasion for the
Athenian intervention in Sicilian affairs, and subsequently to the great
invasion of the Carthaginians, upon whom Segesta became dependent
B.c. 409. The silver money of Segesta, notwithstanding the fact that
it was not a Greek city, affords but slight indications of barbarism,
unless indeed the words IIB and IIA are to be taken as such. It
ranges from the archaic period down to the time of the Carthaginian
invasion in b.c. 410, when it suddenly ceases. The Segestan coin-
types were copied both at Motya on the west and at Panormus on the
east of Segesta.
Circ. B.c. 500-180.
Fig. 88.
Inscr. £AI“E£TAIIB, CETESTAIIBEMI, etc., usually retrograde.
The word EMI may signify that the coins (didrachms) on which it
occurs are ‘ halves ’ of the tetradrachm, the principal silver coin in most of
the other Sicilian cities. But see Von Sallet’s remarks (Z. f. N., i.
p. 278 sqq.), where he expresses his opinion that EMI here stands for
‘ I am Segesta.’ If, as some suppose, the Phoenician word -
the Gk. opp.os or Panormus, then, when compounded with £EI"ESTA, the
word IIB (supposing it to be a Greek form of Y'2) may mean the ‘port of
Segesta,’ to tG>v Alyecrrewv €p,7ropi,ov (Strab. vi. 266, 272’).
SICILY.
Circ. b.c. 415-400.
PIAKINfON Head of young river-
god horned, and laureate. Between
the letters are the marks of value
Dog seizing a fawn by the throat
2E -7 Hemilitron, wt. 70 grs.
(Imhoof-Blumer, Mon. Gr., p. 26.)
In style the head on this coin bears a striking resemblance to the
laureate head on the tetradrachms of Catana (B. M. Cal Sic., p. 45, no. 25).
Piacus may have been situated somewhere in the vicinity of that town.
The river symbolized by the dog seizing a fawn may be one of the
torrents which descend at times from Aetna, perhaps the Acis.
Segesta, west of Panormus, was a non-Hellenic town in the district of
Sicily inhabited by the Elymi. It stood on the summit of an isolated
hill, skirted by a deep ravine, through which flows a torrent which
empties itself into the river Crimisus. According to a local tradition
the city owed its foundation to Egestos, the son of a Trojan maiden
Segesta by the river-god Crimisus, who met her in the form of a dog
(Serv. ad Aen., i. 550, v. 30).
From the earliest times the Segestans were engaged in continual
hostilities with the Selinuntines, doubtless concerning the boundaries of
their respective territories. These disputes gave occasion for the
Athenian intervention in Sicilian affairs, and subsequently to the great
invasion of the Carthaginians, upon whom Segesta became dependent
B.c. 409. The silver money of Segesta, notwithstanding the fact that
it was not a Greek city, affords but slight indications of barbarism,
unless indeed the words IIB and IIA are to be taken as such. It
ranges from the archaic period down to the time of the Carthaginian
invasion in b.c. 410, when it suddenly ceases. The Segestan coin-
types were copied both at Motya on the west and at Panormus on the
east of Segesta.
Circ. B.c. 500-180.
Fig. 88.
Inscr. £AI“E£TAIIB, CETESTAIIBEMI, etc., usually retrograde.
The word EMI may signify that the coins (didrachms) on which it
occurs are ‘ halves ’ of the tetradrachm, the principal silver coin in most of
the other Sicilian cities. But see Von Sallet’s remarks (Z. f. N., i.
p. 278 sqq.), where he expresses his opinion that EMI here stands for
‘ I am Segesta.’ If, as some suppose, the Phoenician word -
the Gk. opp.os or Panormus, then, when compounded with £EI"ESTA, the
word IIB (supposing it to be a Greek form of Y'2) may mean the ‘port of
Segesta,’ to tG>v Alyecrrewv €p,7ropi,ov (Strab. vi. 266, 272’).