Roger Gale - Maurice Johnson - 1744-06-11

Roger Gale

Roger Gale - Maurice Johnson - 1744-06-11

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	14811
InstitutionName of Institution.
InventoryInventory number.
AuthorAuthor of the document.	Roger Gale
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Maurice Johnson
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	June 11, 1744
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	Ezechiel Spanheim, Francis Wise, Scipione Maffei
LiteratureReference to literature.	Spanheim 17061, Maffei 17332, Wise 17363, Nichols 1781-1790, pp. 393-84, Burnett 2020b, pp. 1662, 3985
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Caligula , Local Finds , Chichester , Togidubnus , Mark Antony , Tarkondimotos , Abgarus , Edessa , Gordian Iii
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
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'I am much obliged to you for the coin of Caligula found at Chichester; it is no small argument for the antiquity of that place; ...
[On Cogidubnus taking the name Tiberius Claudius, it doesn’t show he became part of the imperial family; refers to Scipio Maffei’s Antiquitates Galliae Selectae p. 105] where from a medal, he gives you these words, ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΣ ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΡΗΣΚΟΥΠΟΡΙΣ, circa caput regis diadematum. Here you see a foreign prince, a little before the time of our Cogidubnus, thought it was no disgrace to assume the emperor’s name, nor does it appear he was any more than a friend and an ally, and not dopted into the imperial family. In the same learned author, p. 13, you have a medal of Λ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥ ΤΑΡΚΟΝΔΙΜΟΤΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ king of the Upper Cilicia, still earlier, who took the name of his benefactor ΑΝΤΝΙΟΣ, in honour of Anthony.... I will add two more coins with a compliment upon them, by which, and what has been said, you will see it was continued for many years, even from the time of Augustus to the reign of Gordian, and was a mark of gratitude to the emperors, that they acknowledged them for their patrons and benefactors. In Spanheim de usu et praest. num. T.I, p. 535 and 537, is a medal with Severus’s head on one side, on the other that of Abgarus, king of Edessa, with ΒΑΣΛΑΙΑ-ΣΕΠ ΑΒΓΑΡΟΣ Rex Lucius Aelius Septimius Abgarus, where he takes the names of two different emperors, Lucius Aelius and Septimius, as Severus was called; to both of whom he must have had obligations. The second shews a head with a tiara, and ΑΒΓΑΡΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ, and the reverse Gordian with a globe in his left-hand, and Abgarus touching his tiara with his right, ΑΥΓ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟΣ ΑΒΓΑΡΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ, which needs no comment from what I have already said; but, for further satisfaction, you may, if you please, consult Mons. Spanheim as above, and Mr Wise’s Epistle ad Joannem Masson de Nummo Abgari Regis.'

(Nichols 1781-1790, pp. 393-8; Burnett 2020b, p. 1662)

References

^ Spanheim, Ezechiel (1706), Disputationes de usu et præstantia numismatum antiquorum, I, 3rd ed., R. Smith, London.
^ Maffei, Scipione (1733) Galliae antiquitates quaedam selectae atque in plures epistolas distributae, Parisiis, Sub Oliva Caroli Osmont
^ Wise, Francise (1736) Epistola ad V. Cl. Ioannem Masson de nummo Abgari Regis, Oxford.
^ 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.