The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals . morating this event;and several cities, while they boasted of the distinction,appealed to it in proof of their antiquity. ThisApamea, which ranked in importance next to Ephesus,is doubtless that to which these medals refer. Thesurname would not, in all probability, have beenadopted on an insufficient and unsubstantial these, however, there was a city bearing thisname in Bithynia; and, according to Strabo, anotherin Media. Our representations in the plate are copiedfrom
The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals . morating this event;and several cities, while they boasted of the distinction,appealed to it in proof of their antiquity. ThisApamea, which ranked in importance next to Ephesus,is doubtless that to which these medals refer. Thesurname would not, in all probability, have beenadopted on an insufficient and unsubstantial these, however, there was a city bearing thisname in Bithynia; and, according to Strabo, anotherin Media. Our representations in the plate are copiedfrom Sequins Selecta Numismata Antiqua. I now give a wood-cut forthe purpose of comparison,from a cast in my possession,taken from one of the Apameanmedals in the BibliothequeRoyale at Paris. I have dili-gently examined the originalSeverus, from which the castwas obtained, and I cannot but conclude, from themost careful inspection, that the medal is not only agenuine gem from the antique, but that the lettersNnE can be most distinctly traced. Of the first twoletters there can be no doubt whatever, but the third. 210 is considerably defaced, though portions of the letterremain. On a painting in the cemetery of Callistusis the representation of an ark or chest floating onwater, the roof or lid being open, discovers a humanfigure, with outstretched arm, welcoming the adventof a bird on the wing. Similar associations andrepresentations are met with on the Fagginian gem,and on four sarcophagi described by Aringhi. I now add the figure of a curious vessel, the con-tents of which are strongly corroborative of thetraditional testimony concerning the deluge. It is ofthe form of a Babylonian brick, and is copied from arepresentation given by Dr. Wiseman, and forming,together with figures of its contents, the frontispieceplate to his second volume. Thissingular vase was found in 1696,in an excavation near Rome; itsmaterial is earthenware, and wascovered with a lid ; among themiscellaneous con
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