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JUDAEA.
Zeus Nikephoros enthroned. The usual types of the bronze coins are—
Head of Tyche, rev. Galley; the goddess Derceto, or perhaps the Tyche
of the city, standing holding aplustre and trident, with a dove beside
her; Warlike divinity standing facing, brandishing sword above his
head; and holding round shield or branch in his left; Divinity of
Egyptian aspect, and with head-dress of Osiris, standing on the backs
of three lions, and carrying flail {Num. Zeit., 1884, p. 293). For other
types and varieties see De Saulcy, Terre Salnte, p. 178 sqq. The Im-
perial coins of Ascalon are dated from the era of its autonomy, b. c.
104. A coin of Augustus has also a second date which is reckoned
from b. c. 58.
Azotus(?), (Ashdod). To this city G. Hoffmann {Zeit. f. Num., ix. 96)
would attribute two bronze coins, which he thinks were struck in the
name of a ruler called Hirom, but see above (p. 635), where they are
with greater probability assigned to Anisades of Armenia.
The Imperial coins erroneously attributed to Azotus have been restored
by De Saulcy {Terre Sainte, p. 283) to Laodiceia.
Eleutheropolis, about twenty miles south-west of Jerusalem. Imperial
—Severus to Elagabalus. Inscr., A. CEfT. C€OYH. €A€Y0€ (Lucia Sep-
timia Severiana Eleutheropolis). Era begins between A. d. 202 and 208.
Type—Divinity resembling the Ephesian Artemis (cf. Coins of Neapolis
Samariae).
Gaza, an ancient city about twenty miles south of Ascalon, which
Herodotus (iii. 5) mentions as scarcely inferior in size to Sardes, the
capital of Lydia. Its coinage in the fifth and fourth centuries b. c. has
been identified by M. Six {Num. Citron., 1877, p. 221), and consists of
drachms and smaller coins of Attic weight and of various types, of which
the following are the most usual:—
Silver. Attic Standard.
Janiform diademed male and female
heads, or head of Pallas as on coins
of Athens, sometimes closely imi-
tated from Athenian coins, even
with letters AOE.
nty in Phoenician characters, Owl in
incuse square, sometimes before the
fortified wall of a city . . At Dr.
After its capture by Alexander regal coins were struck there with the
monogram T A, both under Ptolemy II and III, and under Demetrius I
of Syria.
The autonomous bronze money of Gaza dates from an era commencing
B.C. 61. Inscr., TA, TAZA, AHMOY TAZAIDN, AHMOY TcuN £N
TAZH, TAZAITDN, r AZEATflN, etc., with addition sometimes of honorific
titles, l€P. ACY. Imperial—Augustus to Gordian, dated after Hadrian’s
time, according to a new era commencing inA.D. 129. Inscr., T AZAID.N,
T AZ A,etc., usually with the addition of the Phoenician letter 0, perhaps the
initial of the divinity MAP NA, whose name, as well as those of MElNuJ
and €luu, is met with on coins of this city. The temple of Marna at Gaza
called the Marneion was identified with that of the Cretan Zeus, (De
Saulcy, Terre Sainte, 210) and Meino and Eio are clearly Minos and Io.
JUDAEA.
Zeus Nikephoros enthroned. The usual types of the bronze coins are—
Head of Tyche, rev. Galley; the goddess Derceto, or perhaps the Tyche
of the city, standing holding aplustre and trident, with a dove beside
her; Warlike divinity standing facing, brandishing sword above his
head; and holding round shield or branch in his left; Divinity of
Egyptian aspect, and with head-dress of Osiris, standing on the backs
of three lions, and carrying flail {Num. Zeit., 1884, p. 293). For other
types and varieties see De Saulcy, Terre Salnte, p. 178 sqq. The Im-
perial coins of Ascalon are dated from the era of its autonomy, b. c.
104. A coin of Augustus has also a second date which is reckoned
from b. c. 58.
Azotus(?), (Ashdod). To this city G. Hoffmann {Zeit. f. Num., ix. 96)
would attribute two bronze coins, which he thinks were struck in the
name of a ruler called Hirom, but see above (p. 635), where they are
with greater probability assigned to Anisades of Armenia.
The Imperial coins erroneously attributed to Azotus have been restored
by De Saulcy {Terre Sainte, p. 283) to Laodiceia.
Eleutheropolis, about twenty miles south-west of Jerusalem. Imperial
—Severus to Elagabalus. Inscr., A. CEfT. C€OYH. €A€Y0€ (Lucia Sep-
timia Severiana Eleutheropolis). Era begins between A. d. 202 and 208.
Type—Divinity resembling the Ephesian Artemis (cf. Coins of Neapolis
Samariae).
Gaza, an ancient city about twenty miles south of Ascalon, which
Herodotus (iii. 5) mentions as scarcely inferior in size to Sardes, the
capital of Lydia. Its coinage in the fifth and fourth centuries b. c. has
been identified by M. Six {Num. Citron., 1877, p. 221), and consists of
drachms and smaller coins of Attic weight and of various types, of which
the following are the most usual:—
Silver. Attic Standard.
Janiform diademed male and female
heads, or head of Pallas as on coins
of Athens, sometimes closely imi-
tated from Athenian coins, even
with letters AOE.
nty in Phoenician characters, Owl in
incuse square, sometimes before the
fortified wall of a city . . At Dr.
After its capture by Alexander regal coins were struck there with the
monogram T A, both under Ptolemy II and III, and under Demetrius I
of Syria.
The autonomous bronze money of Gaza dates from an era commencing
B.C. 61. Inscr., TA, TAZA, AHMOY TAZAIDN, AHMOY TcuN £N
TAZH, TAZAITDN, r AZEATflN, etc., with addition sometimes of honorific
titles, l€P. ACY. Imperial—Augustus to Gordian, dated after Hadrian’s
time, according to a new era commencing inA.D. 129. Inscr., T AZAID.N,
T AZ A,etc., usually with the addition of the Phoenician letter 0, perhaps the
initial of the divinity MAP NA, whose name, as well as those of MElNuJ
and €luu, is met with on coins of this city. The temple of Marna at Gaza
called the Marneion was identified with that of the Cretan Zeus, (De
Saulcy, Terre Sainte, 210) and Meino and Eio are clearly Minos and Io.