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Smyrna, on Autonomous Coinage Probably Antonine in Date (BMC Ionia 257.179, 184, 186; 258.189; 280.349; Posnansky 1890, 132)

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Smyrna, on Autonomous Coinage Probably Antonine in Date (BMC Ionia 257.179, 184, 186; 258.189; 280.349; Posnansky 1890, 132) APPENDIX 1HREE NEMESIS AND THE GRIFFIN: A CORPUS OF THE EVIDENCE EXAMPLES OF A GRIFFIN WITH A WHEEL Coinage: Smyrna, on autonomous coinage probably Antonine in date (BMC Ionia 257.179, 184, 186; 258.189; 280.349; Posnansky 1890, 132). Statuary and Relief: Marble statue from Erez in Israel, now in the Israel Museum,dated by inscription to 210-211 A.C. (Leiboveitch 1958, pIs. 25- 29); faience statuette from Akhmim in Egypt, now in the Brooklyn Museum (Plagge 1976, fig. 140); bronze statuette from Egypt, now in Paris (Plagge 1976, fig. 141); two relief stelae from the amphitheater at Lepcis Magna (Oi Vita-Evrard Private Communication, 3/90); limestone mould from Egypt, now in the British Museum, datable to the second century A.C. (Perdrizet 1914, 94-95, fig. 3; Daux 1942-43, 140-43); funerary relief now in Bologna (Plagge 1976, 113-14, fig. 135); panel of a sarcophagus in Rome at the Lateran (Plagge 1976, 121, fig. 148). Gems: a carnelian and a black agate in the Leonis Collection, dated stylistically to the late second or third century A.C. and the second century A.C. respectively (Vollenweider 1984, 277-8.485, fig. 485; 278.486, fig. 486); a jasper in Hamburg (Inv. #1965.122), dated stylistically to the third­ fourth centuries A.C. (SchlUter, et al. 1975, 390.82, fig. 82); a lapis lazuli in Ann Arbor (!nv. #26047) (Bonner 1950, 257.22, fig. 22); a jasper in the Ruthven Collection (Bonner 1950, 279.161, fig. 161); a jasper from Caesarea Maritima in Israel, dated stylically to the second century A.C. (Hamburger 1968,32.95, pI. IV.95); a carnelian bought in Rome, now in Munich (Inv. A2272) (Brandt, et al. 1972, 38.2324, pI. 207.2324); a carnelian from Gadara in Jordan, dated stylistically to the first-second centuries A.C. (Henig & Whiting 1987, 37.396, fig. 396); a jasper bought in Istanbul, now in Bloomington, Indiana (Selection of Ancient Gems from the Collection of Burton Y. Berry, fig. 66); two carnelians in the Hague (lnv. 781-2), dated stylistically to the first-second centuries A.C. (Maaskant­ Kleibrink 1978,261.693-4, figs. 693-4). Tesserae and tessera imprints from Palmyra (lngholt, Seyrig, Starcky 1955, 28,no. 194; 32,no. 229; 44,nos. 314-16; 46,no. 331; 135, 1008). NEMESIS AND THE GRIFFIN: A CORPUS OF THE EVIDENCE 319 EXAMPLES OF NEMESIS WITH THE GRIFFIN Coinage: Smyrna, on bronze coinage of Commodus and Septimius Severns (BMC Ionia 281.359, pI. XXIX.9, 282.364, 282.365-66); Laodikeia, on bronze coinage of Philip Junior (posnansky 1890, 148); Attaleia, on bronze coinage of Commodus, Gallienus, and Trebonianus Gallus (Posnansky 1890, 149-50); Isindos, on bronze coinage of Maximinus Thrax (posnansky 1890, 150) and Volusian (SNG Copenhagen VI. Pisidia, 166); Side, on bronze coinage of Alexander Severns (posnansky 1890, 150); Rhodiapolis, on bronze coinage of Gordian III (Tranquillina) (Posnansky 1890, 150); Pednelissos, on bronze coinage of Commodus (Posnansky 1890, 150); Prostanna, on bronze coinage of Philip Junior (Posnansky 1890, 150); Termessos, on bronze coinage of uncertain Imperial date (SNG Copenhagen VI. Pisidia, 325); Thyateira, on bronze coinage of Soaemias (Posnansky 1890, 152); Markianopolis, on bronze coinage of Caracalla and Geta (posnansky 1890, 153); Nikopolis, on bronze coinage of Alexander Severns (BMC Galatia 265.2, pI. XXXI. 10); Baris, on bronze coinage of Alexander Severns (BMC Pisidia 207.4, pI. XXXIV.3); Gagai, on bronze coinage of Gordian III (Tranquillina) (BMC Lycia 59.2, pI. XIII.2). Statuary: Marble statue from Perge, found on the floor of a Late Antique Gate, now in the Antalya Museum (A.3313), dated stylistically to the second century A.C. (Antalya Museum Catalogue 1988,207.97, pI. 97); marble statue from the frigidarium of the S. Baths at Perge, now in the Antalya Museum (18.13.79), dated stylistically and especially epigraphically to no earlier than the reign of Hadrian (l>zgiir 1987, no. 25); marble statue from Kremna, now in the Burdur Museum, similar to the frrst from Antalya (lnan, Private Communication 12/89); marble statue from the stage building debris of the great theater at Ephesus, dated tylistically to the late second­ early third century A.C. (Schweitzer 1931,208, fig. 9); marble statue from the palaestra at Salamis, dated to the second century A.C. because of the time of the restoration of the palaestra (Karageorghis 1964, 12-14, pI. XII); marble statue from Callatis, now in the Mangalia New Museum, dated stylistically and· epigraphically to the frrst half of the third century A.C. (Bordenache 1960,506-508, fig. 2a-c); limestone statue from the Nemesis sacellum at the military amphitheater at Carnuntum, now in the Museum Carnuntinum, datable no earlier than the reign of Hadrian because of the time of the posting at Carnuntum of the legion named in the inscription (Vorbeck & BeckeU973, fig. 48); limestone statue from the Governor's residence at Aquincum, now in the Budapest City Museum, dated stylistically to the second-third centuries A.C. (Szihlgyi 1956, 100, 153; 1976, fig. 7); limestone statue from Viminacium, datable stylistically to the second century A.C. (Ladek, et al. 1901, 120-21, fig. 11); marble statue .
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