Iconium, (now Konich or Cogni,) the ancient capital of Lycaonia, (now Karamania, Asiatic Turkey). This city is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, c. xiii., v. 51. -A Roman colony, its coins (besides antonomes in sm. brass and imperial Greek in brass) consist of brass of the three modules, with Latin legends. The pieces with Greek inscriptions are respectively of Nero, Hadrian, and Faustina Junior. The following are its Latin brass:-
Gordian III. -Rev. COL AEL ICONIEN S R - A veiled priest tracing the limits of a colony with plough and two oxen. In the field two military ensigns. -Rev. ICONIENSI COLO SR - Fortune seated.
Valerian I. -Same legends. Fortune seated, a wheel under her chair.
Gallienus. -Rev. ICONIENSIVM CO SR -The twins and the wolf - same legend, Hercules standing - same legend, Minerva seated.
Icuncula (from icon) a small image of frequent occurrence on Roman coins, sometimes in the right, sometimes in the left-hand of the principal figure.
Idus, the Ides, from Iduus, an Etruscan verb, iduare, to divide, because the Ides divide the month into two almost equal parts. -They were (says Vaillant) sacred to Jupiter.- The Ides of March are marked on a denarius of Brutus - EID MAR - See Marcus Brutus, p. 145 of this Dictionary.
Jerusalem, the most illustrious and most celebrated city of Palestine, besieged and destroyed by Titus; restored by Hadrian at his own expense. For further allusions to this place, in its state of subjection to the Romans, see AELIA CAPITOLINA p. 15.