Head, Barclay V.: Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887)

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CRETE.

CITIES OF C RETE.

Alassa, Thalassa, or Lasaea, a town near the southernmost promontory
of Crete, mentioned in Acts xxvii. 8. The Vulgate reads Thalassa. It is
perhaps identical with the Lasus of Pliny (iv. 12). Imperial bronze coins ;
Inscr., BAAACHuuN (?). Magistrates, CTTI ATAOuuNOC, €TTI NEOKYAOY
OA P(?). Types, Hexastyle temple, and Zeus enthroned, holding sceptre
and ears of corn. This attribution is not quite satisfactory. (A7^^. Chron.,
1884, p. 56.)
Allaria, Site uncertain, known only from coins and inscriptions.
This coin was formerly attributed to Lacedaemon, q. v.

Giro. b. c. 200.


Fig. 244.

Head of Pallas in crested Corinthian
helmet (Fig. 244).
Id. (B. M. Cat., Crete, Pl. II. 2.)

A A Herakles seated on rock resting
on club . Al Attic tetra dr., 235 grs.
AAAAPIHTAN (sometimes retrogr.).
Herakles standing resting on club .
Al Aeginetic Dr., 73 grs.

Apollonia. The uninscribed coins formerly attributed to a town called
Apollonia on the north coast of Crete, seem to belong to the town
of Naxus (p. 400).
Aptera. The ‘wingless town’ between Cydonia and Polyrhenium,
is said by Steph. Byz. to have derived its name from the myth of the
contest between the Muses and Sirens, in which the latter lost their
wings and cast themselves into the sea.

Circ. b. c.
APTEPAIHN or APTAPAIjCIN Fe-
male head wearing stephane and
earring ; on some specimens, artist’s
name PYOOAH[POY.
Female head.
Id.

350-300.
PTOAIOI KOC or TTOAIOl TOS Arm-
ed warrior standing before a sacred
tree, to the branches of which he
raises his hand in adoration. (Num.
Chron., 1-884, Ph !• 4) • Hl Stater.
ATTAPA Bow . . . . Al | Dr.
Id Al -5