William Stukeley - Roger Gale - 1737-05-09
William Stukeley, Stamford
William Stukeley - Roger Gale - 1737-05-09
| FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ | 14823 |
| InstitutionName of Institution. | |
| InventoryInventory number. | |
| AuthorAuthor of the document. | William Stukeley |
| RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. | Roger Gale |
| Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . | May 9, 1737 |
| PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. | Stamford 52° 39' 7.20" N, 0° 28' 49.66" W |
| Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. | Christian Sigismund Liebe |
| LiteratureReference to literature. | Liebe 1730Liebe 1730, Stukeley 1752Stukeley 1752, Nichols 1781-1790, pp. 309-10Nichols 1781-1790, Burnett 2020b, p. 1676Burnett 2020b |
| KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ | Tylissos |
| LanguageLanguage of the correspondence | English |
| External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ᵖ |
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".
'When I was coming out of town, I got of my friend Mr Prude, an apothecary, the following coin by exchange [Plate VI.11]. We first had a true notion of it from the learned Liebe, who published the ‘Gotha Nummaria’. he rightly interprets the legend to be ΤΥΛΙΣΙΩΝ, and belonging to a city called Tylis, under Mount Haemus in Thrace. The head is of the goddess Cotys, much worshipped by the ladies of that country, who ran about naked, drunk and fanatick, in the night-time, with torches, in the celebration of her religious rites; and upon the reverse is one of these mad girls represented. She holds a mask in her right hand and a tympanum in her left. ... I have wrote upon this coin, and design it for the close of No.II of my ‘Palaeographia sacra’. ... The coin before us, I suppose, represents Mirian, the sister of Moses, the Thracian Cotys.'
(Nichols 1781-1790, pp. 309-10; Burnett 2020b, p. 1676)