Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . 31.) The attributes of Poseidon appear on thecoins of Tenos. There was another town in theisland named Eriston (^HpLarov; BiJckli, J7tsc):2336, 2337), which was situated in tlie inteiiorat the village of Komi. Among the curiositiesof Tenos was mentioned a fountain, the water ofwhich would not mix with wine. (Allien, ii. , c.) The island was celebrated in antiquityfor its fine garhc. (Aristoph. Pint. 18.) Tliechief modem production of the island is wine,of which the best kind is the celebrated Malvasia,which now grows only at Tenos and no lonter atM
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . 31.) The attributes of Poseidon appear on thecoins of Tenos. There was another town in theisland named Eriston (^HpLarov; BiJckli, J7tsc):2336, 2337), which was situated in tlie inteiiorat the village of Komi. Among the curiositiesof Tenos was mentioned a fountain, the water ofwhich would not mix with wine. (Allien, ii. , c.) The island was celebrated in antiquityfor its fine garhc. (Aristoph. Pint. 18.) Tliechief modem production of the island is wine,of which the best kind is the celebrated Malvasia,which now grows only at Tenos and no lonter atMunemhuiiia in Peloponnesus, from which place itderived its name. (Tournefort, Voyaye, tf-c. vol. 271, transl.; Exped. Scieniif. vol. iii. p. 2;Fiedler, Reke, vol. ii. p. 241, seq.; Finlay, Hist, ojGreece under Othonian and Vemtian Domination,pp. 276, 287 ; and especially Boss, Reise aiif dmGriech. Inseln. vol. i. p. 11, seq., who cites a mo-nograph, JIarcaky Zallony, Voyaye a Tine, Imiedes lies de IArchipd de la Grece, Paris, 1809.). COIN OE TENOS. TEXTVKA or TENTYBIS (to TfVrupa. Strainxvii. ].. 814; Ptol. iv. 5. §§ 6. 8; Steph. B. *•. r.:Etii. TecTu/nTTjj), the Coptic Tentort- and the mo-dern Jhmkruh, was the capital of the TentyriteNome in Upper Aegypt (Agutharch. op. Phot, ,ed. Bekker). It was situated in hit. 26° 9 X., onthe western bank of flie Nile, about 38 miles N. ofThebes. The name of the city was probably de-rived from the object of worslii]) there —the goddess Athor (Ajihrodile), Ijcing a contracleilform of Thy-n-Athor or abode of Athor. The liie-ruglypliic legend of the genius of the place contaiiia 4 c 4 I12S TEXTYDA. the name of the town, and is geuerally attached tothe head-dress of Athor, accompanied by the signKali or the land. The Tentyrite Athor has ahuman face with the ears of a cow (IJoseliini,Monum. dd. CiiUo, pi. 2{). 3), and her attributes soclosely resemble those of Lsis, that it was longdoubtful to which of the two goddess
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