. Here an abyss opened in the earth, to close again only when the king's son plunged into it, in panoply, on his steed. And here, in later days, we find a legend on the coins of the city which is unexampled in the whole Roman world. Coins struck in the earlier part of the third century of our era represent an ark with a man and a woman in it, and with the name of Noah written on it. Now it is well known that there was a large body of Jews among the citizens of Apamea ; but the same was true of many cities in Asia Minor ; yet it was only at Apamea that the legend of Noah was represented on the
. Here an abyss opened in the earth, to close again only when the king's son plunged into it, in panoply, on his steed. And here, in later days, we find a legend on the coins of the city which is unexampled in the whole Roman world. Coins struck in the earlier part of the third century of our era represent an ark with a man and a woman in it, and with the name of Noah written on it. Now it is well known that there was a large body of Jews among the citizens of Apamea ; but the same was true of many cities in Asia Minor ; yet it was only at Apamea that the legend of Noah was represented on the coins. The problem was thoroughly investigated by a young Jewish scholar, one of the first French officers to fall in the war, in a book published in 1913,- and he was able to supply convincing proof that the legend of the flood had been located at Apamea from remote antiquity, and that the Jewish version was simply superimposed on the old Anatolian story. The flood-story lasted on in this district till Byzantine times, when, according to the local tradition, a deluge threatened to overwhelm Colossae. The city which had 2 Noe Sangariou, by Adolphe Reinach, Paris, 1913.
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