]> 2026-05-29T19:04:07+00:00 Ralph Thoresby - Thomas Hearne - 1706-03-25 0 en 1706-03-25Z 2344246.5 '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, y^t I went immediately to view an old coyne I have of the Smyrnaeans, where on I hoped to have found y^t 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 w^ch 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, w^ch 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) 16347 MS Rawlinson Letters 10, f.49r English Hearne 1885, vol. 1, p. 208 (summary) Burnett 2020b, pp. 871-2 smyrna antioch magnesia greek roman provincial legends (letters) senatus consulto britain 16347 Ralph Thoresby - Thomas Hearne - 1706-03-25 Correspondence.png 2024-01-05T11:28:22Z 2460314.9780324 2024-01-05T11:28:22Z 2460314.9780324 true Ralph Thoresby - Thomas Hearne - 1706-03-25 0 0 plainlist leaflet 1 [[:Ralph Thoresby - Thomas Hearne - 1706-03-25]] Ralph Thoresby - Thomas Hearne - 1706-03-25# QUERY68ea730da83e93b7a1c846853eb8ed9e 0 0 csv 1 [[:Ralph Thoresby - Thomas Hearne - 1706-03-25]] Ralph Thoresby - Thomas Hearne - 1706-03-25# QUERYd0e5c28d53d07012050035d362117d6a