Researches Into the Origin of the Primitive Constellations of the Greeks, Phoenicians And Babylonians
Researches Into the Origin of the Primitive Constellations of the Greeks, Phoenicians And Babylonians
Robert Brown
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Local features, as of course, constantly reappear on coinage ; but they are almost invariably blended and harmonized with figures and symbols connected with an external civilization. * The first gold coins were issued by the kings of Lydia, and the first silver money by Pheidon in Aegina' (Perrot, Hist of Art in Phrygia^ Lijdia^ Caria^ and Lycia^ p. 253). Electrum, which Svas composed of ab6ut three parts of gold and one part of silver' (Head, The Coinage of Jjydia and Persia^ p. 8), was also u...sed by the Lydian monarchs. On the earliest coins the Obverse is plain, whilst the Reverse bears several ' incuse depressions ' and some- Digitized by VjOOQIC V] CONSTELLATIONS AND COIN-TrPES. 175 times a Fox 'running left/ which Lenormant well conjectures to be 'a symbol of the Lydian Dionysos, whose name Bassareus may be connected with the word Bassara or Bassaris, a Fox ' {Ibid. p. 12). The Lydians did not merely choose the animal as a coin-type because they chanced to be familiar with it. We then meet with the following types : — ' Fore-parts of Lion and Ball turned away from each other and joined by their necks.' LiorCs head with open mouth.
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