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 17301, Stukeley 17522, Nichols 1781-1790, pp. 309-103, Burnett 2020b, p. 16764
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Tylissos
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
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'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)

References

^ Liebe, Sigismund (1730), Gotha numaria sistens thesauri Fridericiani numismata antique aurea, agentea, aerea, ea ratione descripta, ut generali eorum notitiae exempla singularia subiungantur, apud R. & J. Westenios & G. Smith, Amsterdam
^ Stukeley, William (1752), Palaeographica Britannia: or, Discourses on Antiquities that Relate to the History of Britain: Number III. Oriuna Wife of Carausius, Emperor of Britain, London.
^ Nichols, John (ed.), Reliquiae Galeanae, in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica II.1 (London, 1781), II.2 (London, 1781), III (London, 1790).
^ Burnett, Andrew M. (2020), The Hidden Treasures of this Happy Land. A History of Numismatics in Britain from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, BNS Special Publ. No 14 = RNS Special Publ. No 58, London, Spink & Son.