Ralph Thoresby - Thomas Hearne - 1706-03-25
Ralph Thoresby
Ralph Thoresby - Thomas Hearne - 1706-03-25
| FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ | 16347 |
| InstitutionName of Institution. | Oxford, Bodleian Library |
| InventoryInventory number. | MS Rawlinson Letters 10, f.49r |
| AuthorAuthor of the document. | Ralph Thoresby |
| RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. | Thomas Hearne |
| Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . | March 25, 1706 |
| PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. | |
| Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. | William Camden |
| LiteratureReference to literature. | Hearne 1885, vol. 1, p. 208 (summary)Hearne 1885, Burnett 2020b, pp. 871-2Burnett 2020b |
| KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ | Smyrna , Antioch , Magnesia , Greek , Roman Provincial , Legends (letters) , Senatus Consulto , Britain |
| LanguageLanguage of the correspondence | English |
| External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ᵖ | http://tinyurl.com/ydef8khw |
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'I am much obliged to you for your very instructive Letter, & beg pardon that some busyness has delay’d my return til now, I was so pleased with what you write about Cybele, yt I went immediately to view an old coyne I have of the Smyrnaeans, where on I hoped to have found yt mother of the Gods (whose round head I remember’d was upon it) stiled ΣΙΠΥΛΥ but tho it have her effigy very fair, yet ’tis inscribed ΣΜΥΡΝΑ, the Reverse has a Lyon with ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ. I have also a larger Greek medall of Julius Philippus wch would tempt us to believe Antioch also, as wel as Smyrna & Magnesia, was committed to the protection of the same Goddess. She is very fairly represented crowned with Towers - this inscription ΑΝΤΙΟΧЄΩΝ ΜΗΤΡΟΚΟΛΩΝ S C Δ Є perhaps for Λ Є Lustrum quintum, tho what to make of the later word I am at a loss, except the Greek & Roman tongue begun then to admit of a sort of Mongrell mixture, & then it may seem to stile the Antiocheans the men of the Mother Colony, & the Latin Character SC seems to countenance the conjecture for it is evidently designed for Senatus consulto & differs from the S on the other side in ΣЄβastos. Thus we see the Greeks often express their Tutelar designs upon their Coyns, but we have no such relating to our British afairs, wch was what I meant by having no assistance from my Coins, as to the Yorke Genius for who Camden tels us of Col. Camalodon. yet nothing of the Genius & ...' (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson Letters 10, f.49r; Burnett 2020b, pp. 871-2)
