Volume 1

Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa / By Edward Daniel Clarke.

  • Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769-1822.
Date:
1810-1823
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Credit: Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa / By Edward Daniel Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and Gorgippus, are the tyrants of the Bosporus alluded to by the orator Dinarchus3, when he reproaches Demosthenes with having caused bronze statues to be erected in honour of those sovereigns, in the public square at Athens. This, and the preceding marble, tend to confirm what we read in Strabo4, Diodorus5, and Lucian6, that, from the time of Spartocus I. to Asander, who was invested with the regal authority by Augustus, the government of the Bosporus was partly re¬ publican ; for Paerisades is styled Archon of the Bosporus, and the chief magistrate is termed Hegemon by Strabo, and Ethnarchus by Lucian. The deities Anerges and Astara are Syro-Chaldaic. Anerges is probably the same as the deity Nergel, or Nergal, mentioned in Scripture7, the Moloch of the Ammonites, the Remphah of the Egyptians, and Hyperion of the Greeks. Astara is the Chaldaic and Phoenician Astaroth, the Alilat of the Arabs, the Isis of the Egyptians, the Syrian deity mentioned by Lucian, and the Atergatis, Astarte, and Selene, of the Greeks. It was, then, to the two great luminaries of heaven that Comosarya dedicated her monument, probably to implore them to grant her fruitfulness in marriage8. (3) Demosthen. Orat. pag. 34. ed. Reiske. (4) Lib. xi. pag. 758. (5) Lib. xx. cap. 22. (6) In Macrob. cap. xvii. p. 123. (7) 4 Kings, xvii. 30. (8) It is observable that SXYPfll is in the singular number, which is an error in the engraver of the marble ; and for 0ATERN Koehler proposes 0ATEPRN. Seven