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

ACALISSUS—MYRA.

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Balbura. Autonomous AL of Imperial times. Types—Eagle and fulmen,
etc., and Imperial of Caligula, BAABOYPEtuN, Herakles leaning on club.
Bubon. This town was annexed to Lycia by Murena, B.c. 84. Federal
AL. Inscr., BOY. {Num. Chron., x. 82).
Cadyanda. Autonomous AL of late times. Inscr., KA AY. Type—Hennes.
{Num. Chron., x. 82.)
Calynda. Small autonomous IE of the second or first century B.C.
Inscr., KA AY or KAAYN, Head of Artemis rev., Stag, Forepart of stag or
torch. {Num. Chron., ix. 148 ; Imhoof, Mon. Gr., p. 307.)
Candyba. Imperial AL—Gordian III. Inscr., KANAYBEUJN. Type—
Tyche. {Z. f. N., v. Pl. I. 9.)
Choma. Autonomous AL of late times. Inscr., X—Cl, and Imperial of
Gordian, XUUM ATEITUJN, Armed horseman.
Corydalla. Imperial—Sev. Alex., Gordian, and Tranquillina, KOPY-
AAAAEujN, Tyche, Pallas, Horseman.
Cragus. Federal Al and AL, AYKI31N KPAl-, AY—KP, etc. Also in
alliance with Myra, AY—KP — MY; with Telmessus, AY—TEA—KP ;
with Tlos, TA—KP, AY—TAuj—KP, AY—KP—TA, etc.; with Trabala,
TP A—KP ; or with Xanthus, KP—HAN. Concerning these alliances of
pairs of towns, see above (p. 576).
Cyane. Federal AL, AY—KYA, {Num. Chron., x. 83,) and Imperial of
Gordian, KYANEITUUN, Horseman.
Cydna (?). Federal JR and AL, AYKI31N—KY. It is very probable that
these coins are of Cyane.
Gagae. Federal IE, AYKI31N—TA. Imperial—Tranquillina, rATA-
TujN, Nemesis with whip, wheel, and griffin.
Limyra. Federal JR and AL, AYKI31N—Al, etc., and Imperial of
Gordian and Tranquillina, AIMYPEUJN. Types—Zeus Nikephoros;
AIMYPOC, a River-god; AIMYPEuuN PHTMA or XPHCMOC, an Ox
drinking from a fountain, which issues from a rock, or Ox and Goat
drinking from one source. This oracular fountain is mentioned by Pliny,
H. N., xxxi. 18. (See Eckhel, iii. p. 4.)
Masicytus. Federal A3 and AL, AYK131N—M A or MAE, etc., and Imperial
of Augustus, A3 and AE, AYK 131N—MA. Type—Lyre, or two lyres.
Myra. Federal Al and AL, AYKI31N — MY, AY— MYPA, etc., and
Imperial—Ant. Pius to Gordian, MYPEUUN, MYPEUUN MHTPOriO AEUUC,
etc. . The most remarkable type on the coins of this city is the figure of
a veiled. Asiatic goddess, Artemis Myrea(?), whose effigy is sometimes
seen amid the branches of a tree, on either side of which stands a man
with an axe, as if about to fell it, but apparently deterred therefrom by
two serpents emerging from the trunk and darting towards him (Fig.
319). For a similar type, see Aphrodisias Cariae (p. 521). The subject
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