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(P) THRACIAN KINGS AND DYNASTS.
Head of Pan facing or in profile, some- TAN Lion-lieaded Gryphon horned
times with ivy-wreath (Fig. 170). and winged, with spear in his mouth,
standing on a stalk of barley .
EL Stater, wt. 140 grs.
These gold staters are fine works of art without any trace of barbarism.
The worship of the god Pan at this town may have been connected with
the supposed derivation of the name. The winged and horned lion is a
variety of the griffin, the fabled guardian of the gold-producing regions
of the north (Herod., iii. 116), the Ural or Altai mountains, whence the
Greeks of Panticapaeum obtained gold in great quantities, as has been
proved in our own time by the enormous masses of treasure unearthed
in the tumuli near Kertch. It was perhaps owing to the cheapness of
gold at Panticapaeum that the stater attains there the excessive weight
of 140 grs.
Before circ. b. c. 400-300.
The silver coins, mostly of the fourth century, usually bear on the
obverse a head of Pan, and on the reverse a Dulls head, a Lion with a
spear in his mouth, or a Lions head. Among the earliest may be men-
tioned the following didrachm and obol in the cabinet of the Baron de
Hirsch, which are probably to be attributed to the latter part of the fifth
century.
Lion’s scalp facing.
Id.
Incuse square, in the four quarters of
which P—A —N and a star .
Ad 126 grs.
PANTI Ram’s head in incuse square .
Ad 10 grs.
The Bull’s head points to the cultus of Artemis Tauropolos. The Lion
breaking a spear is perhaps only a variant of the winged monster on the
gold coins. The bronze coins are numerous and for the most part
resemble the silver in their types.
Circ. b. c. 300-200, and later.
In the third and second centuries the silver coins have usually a head of
young Dionysos or of Apollo on the obverse, and the inscr. PANTIKAPAITflN,
with various types of no special interest, on the reverse. On the largest
of the bronze coins of this time the head of the Moon-god, Men, occurs,
with, on the reverse, Dionysos standing with panther Reside him. Among
other types may be mentioned the Drinking Pegasos, and the Cornucopiae
with the caps of the Dioskuri.
P. Thracian Kings and Dynasts.
Kings of the Odrysae, etc. Between the Persian and Peloponnesian
wars these kings had gradually extended their sway over the greater
part of Thrace.
Sparadocus, brother of Sitalces, circ. B. c. 430 fBull. de Corr. Ilell., iii.
p. 409).
(P) THRACIAN KINGS AND DYNASTS.
Head of Pan facing or in profile, some- TAN Lion-lieaded Gryphon horned
times with ivy-wreath (Fig. 170). and winged, with spear in his mouth,
standing on a stalk of barley .
EL Stater, wt. 140 grs.
These gold staters are fine works of art without any trace of barbarism.
The worship of the god Pan at this town may have been connected with
the supposed derivation of the name. The winged and horned lion is a
variety of the griffin, the fabled guardian of the gold-producing regions
of the north (Herod., iii. 116), the Ural or Altai mountains, whence the
Greeks of Panticapaeum obtained gold in great quantities, as has been
proved in our own time by the enormous masses of treasure unearthed
in the tumuli near Kertch. It was perhaps owing to the cheapness of
gold at Panticapaeum that the stater attains there the excessive weight
of 140 grs.
Before circ. b. c. 400-300.
The silver coins, mostly of the fourth century, usually bear on the
obverse a head of Pan, and on the reverse a Dulls head, a Lion with a
spear in his mouth, or a Lions head. Among the earliest may be men-
tioned the following didrachm and obol in the cabinet of the Baron de
Hirsch, which are probably to be attributed to the latter part of the fifth
century.
Lion’s scalp facing.
Id.
Incuse square, in the four quarters of
which P—A —N and a star .
Ad 126 grs.
PANTI Ram’s head in incuse square .
Ad 10 grs.
The Bull’s head points to the cultus of Artemis Tauropolos. The Lion
breaking a spear is perhaps only a variant of the winged monster on the
gold coins. The bronze coins are numerous and for the most part
resemble the silver in their types.
Circ. b. c. 300-200, and later.
In the third and second centuries the silver coins have usually a head of
young Dionysos or of Apollo on the obverse, and the inscr. PANTIKAPAITflN,
with various types of no special interest, on the reverse. On the largest
of the bronze coins of this time the head of the Moon-god, Men, occurs,
with, on the reverse, Dionysos standing with panther Reside him. Among
other types may be mentioned the Drinking Pegasos, and the Cornucopiae
with the caps of the Dioskuri.
P. Thracian Kings and Dynasts.
Kings of the Odrysae, etc. Between the Persian and Peloponnesian
wars these kings had gradually extended their sway over the greater
part of Thrace.
Sparadocus, brother of Sitalces, circ. B. c. 430 fBull. de Corr. Ilell., iii.
p. 409).